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On a Friday night a few months ago, I was on a FaceTime call with some friends, other seniors in high school. We were hanging out in our rooms, scrolling through Snapchat, when a friend of mine mentioned a girl he knew from one of our sister schools. He wanted …

There’s yet more data out lending credence to the theory of Gen Z’s purported prudishness, with nearly half the respondents to a new survey saying there’s “too much sex and sexual content in TV and movies.” The data comes from the UCLA Center for Scholars and Storytellers’ annual “Teens & …

That was the day the floodgates opened: the October morning in 2022 that I couldn’t hold it down anymore. I’d been up all night sweating my academic future, sweating the New York Yankees’ future; trying to sweat anything but my algebra exam, which was scheduled for second period the next …

Bo Loudon, a Trump-supporting Gen Z influencer, has taken credit for TikTok star Khaby Lame‘s detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE on June 6. That day, Loudon, 18, who has called Donald Trump’s son Barron his “best friend,” began a series of posts on X claiming he …

The time has come for a passing of the torch, and I couldn’t be more relieved: No longer must my viciously stereotyped age cohort — the so-called “millennials,” those born between the early Eighties and mid-Nineties — bear responsibility for the relentless flow of societal change. For while the 2010s …

Olivia, a 21-year-old college student, was sitting in an English class at her Minnesota school last week when her professor began talking about the challenges in writing about traumatic events. But when he used 9/11 as an example, and described to the class how hectic things seemed that day, she …

W E’VE LIVED THROUGH a pandemic. We’re living in a climate crisis. We’re living through a mental health crisis. We’re living in a day and age when school shootings are the norm,” Keely Magee, a 21-year-old activist from New Jersey says with frustration. It’s a feeling familiar to many of …

Sixty years ago, Bob Dylan and his girlfriend Suze Rotolo stepped outside their West Village apartment, holding each other against the biting February cold. Standing in the snowy street beside a blue Volkswagen bus, they posed for a series of photographs. “Bob stuck his hands in the pockets of his …

Gen Z is severely misunderstood. Every generation above them complains: they’re glued to their phones, they don’t care about politics, they don’t ask enough questions, they don’t think critically, they’re not observant, and so on. People who think this way are undervaluing the potential and promise of Gen Z, especially …

While every generation draws on their experiences to bring something new to the table, a truly digital-native generation such as Gen Z may have a major impact on the workforce moving forward. Growing up in the internet age has helped to shape both the skills and interests of this young …