BIEBER: The new album's going really well. I'm working a lot with meeting with other young activists, encouraging voter registration, and helping to bolster what is estimated to be thehighest midterm election turnoutfor young people in a quarter-century. takes nine months out of my life. I'm pulling from life experience, and if you're not living, then what are you really making? It's a dream to be able to make this show, but I want to make sure that the show is also good,” she tells me. “We needed a pause. Coming back, we just felt so fresh and excited to be there, and it showed. It felt like fun again.” In this op-ed, student and writer Michael Pincus explains why, as an LGBTQ teen, he is concerned by the the nomination of judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.