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 …
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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 & …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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