Youth

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Young People Are Running for Office. Where Is Their Support? Young People Are Running for Office. Where Is Their Support?

The party establishment view young candidates as outsiders, but a handful of local and national organizations are trying to change that.

Jun 17, 2021 / StudentNation / Sadie Bograd

Biden youth support

No Generation Without Representation No Generation Without Representation

Biden and Harris relied on youth support during the election. It’s time for the administration to support them back.

Jun 9, 2021 / StudentNation / Jazmin Kay

Laughing Brett Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh Remains As Incorrigible as Ever Brett Kavanaugh Remains As Incorrigible as Ever

In a recent decision, the man who argued he shouldn’t be judged by his youthful indiscretions had no problem sending young people to prison for life without parole.

May 21, 2021 / Column / Elie Mystal

Bastian Rodriguez

‘It’s Like a Black Hole’: ICE Has Been Holding Kids in Indefinite Detention ‘It’s Like a Black Hole’: ICE Has Been Holding Kids in Indefinite Detention

The agency has sent an unknown number of teenagers to juvenile jails and won’t tell anyone why.

May 13, 2021 / Ashoka Mukpo

What ‘Girlhood’ Means in 2021

What ‘Girlhood’ Means in 2021 What ‘Girlhood’ Means in 2021

A conversation with Melissa Febos about her radical essays on youth and gender.

May 10, 2021 / Q&A / Naomi Gordon-Loebl

The Rise of Adjunct Lit

The Rise of Adjunct Lit The Rise of Adjunct Lit

How a bleak future in and out of the academy has produced a new kind of campus novel.

May 3, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Maggie Doherty

fifteen year old foster girl who just arrived sits on the swing at the Paul Miller Home

How Covid-19 Supercharged a Foster System Crisis How Covid-19 Supercharged a Foster System Crisis

Parents are losing their kids as they struggle to navigate bureaucracies upended by the pandemic.

Mar 15, 2021 / Michelle Chen

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My Son Is His Own Person, and I’m Glad to Know Him My Son Is His Own Person, and I’m Glad to Know Him

Eventually, our kids realize they’re free to become who they are. Our job is to let them.

Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Carvell Wallace

Imani Perry

Parenting Through Sickness, Health, and Covid-19 Parenting Through Sickness, Health, and Covid-19

To avoid replicating this awful moment, our failures must become the source of our children’s political possibilities.

Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Imani Perry

Greta Thunberg

Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents

Across the country and the world, children are waking moms and dads to the urgent need to take climate action.

Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Angely Mercado

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