Journalism

In a post-Roe v. Wade America, methods to prevent pregnancy are more important than ever. However, some states have already started limiting access to contraceptives. Many conservative states have introduced legislation to ban  . . . Read More

This year, 27 school shootings have already taken place. With each one, I am confronted with what feels like an increasingly real risk that school is not always a safe place . . . Read More

On March 9, the Mississippi House of Representatives killed a bill that would have allowed mothers to keep Medicaid coverage for a year after giving birth . . . Read More

I first read Maus — a graphic novel about the Holocaust in which Nazis are portrayed as cats and Jewish victims are portrayed as mice — when I was 12 years old. For me, Maus was powerful...It was a serious, insightful read that taught me the importance of empathy, courage, and standing up in the face of tyranny. It has stayed with me ever since. Yet the 10-member school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, unanimously voted to remove Maus from their school’s eighth-grade curriculum one day before it was scheduled to be taught in class . . . Read More

Friday, December 17, was deemed “National School Shooting Day” by various anonymous TikTok accounts, which encouraged viewers to incite violence at their schools, including shootings and bombings . . . Read More

Making women feel bad about their bodies and looks is good business for Facebook and Instagram, according to a former Facebook employee . . . Read More

I have been tutoring my friend in French for the past few months. We sit together in our dorm after class, watch French movies, and practice our pronunciations. We’ve also started to realize how often you can get away with not knowing a French word by simply pronouncing the English equivalent with a French accent (télévision, créatif, cataclysme ... the system works). Everything was going well until my friend, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns in English, pointed out that because French is a grammatically gendered language where everything is assigned as male or female, the language does not recognize their existence . . . Read More

North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 35, which increases the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old (under certain circumstances), into law on August 26 . . . Read More

Menstruation has long been stigmatized in our society, often portrayed as shameful or embarrassing rather than a natural function of the human body that occurs about every month for roughly half the world’s population. In the U.S., education on menstruation is typically lacking, if it’s taught at all. Access to menstrual hygiene products has never been prioritized as a basic right by our government. However, as major international organizations like UNICEF and UNFPA have stated, “essential hygiene products are a priority for the health, dignity, and welfare of all people who menstruate.” . . . Read More

Teenagers reportedly spend an average of seven hours each day online, not including schoolwork; 29% of teenagers spend more than eight hours online. Three of those hours, on average among people aged 16 to 24, are dedicated to social media, according to a 2019 study . . . Read More

Although the United States is beginning to reopen thanks to high vaccination rates, the lingering mental health challenges exacerbated by the pandemic are likely to remain far beyond our pending return to “normalcy” — and are likely to affect young people most of all . . . Read More

The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be . . . Read More

On May 5, Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York and Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii introduced the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to the extreme increase in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last year . . . Read More

I should have been horrified, outraged, or even terrified when I learned about the domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol in January. But I wasn’t. As a 16-year-old, I’ve grown numb to acts of extremism in my country, and I’m hardly the only teenager to feel this way. . . . Read More