Zachary Singerman

I’m a Jewish teen exhausted by violence, and I can’t keep waiting for adults to fix it

When the Capitol was being stormed by insurrectionists, I was at home doing virtual high school and worrying about a tough history essay that I was writing. As a teenager growing up in Washington, D.C. — I live about a 30-minute walk from the Capitol — the attack felt very personal and close to home,…