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Civics education in the United States is having a moment – or, more accurately, a series of them. I can vouch for that from my own reporting, having heard college administrators talk about encouraging faculty, students, and university communities to have uncomfortable conversations without canceling one another. Today, staff writer Scott Baldauf introduces us to high school students from across the country. He found that civics is important to many of them, too. They’re reading important texts that helped found this country 250 years ago. They’re analyzing how well those ideas hold up today. Young minds testing hypotheses. That’s how this country will move ahead, and how it always has.