(Mary Turner/Getty Images)The Brexit vote, like most elections, posed a paradox. Low youth turnout in elections is a problem that plagues all of the world's democracies. In the United States, youth turnout was at its all-time low in the 2014 congressional elections, at 19.9 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds. Those who have to live the longest with the decision's ramifications are also the ones least likely to vote. In the United States and elsewhere, young voters tend to lean more to the left, politically speaking, and failure to mobilize them has been a persistent bane of progressive politics.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 14:41 UTC