Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax
Isabel Hogben (left) and Caleb Silverberg are the two runners-up in our contest.
Plus: what to do about porn. Meet the two runners-up in our high school essay contest.
American teenagers aren’t having a good time. They aren’t having sex. They aren’t driving. They are depressed, anxious, and lonely. (Whether social media is the cause or the catalyst is a subject of ongoing and intense debate.)
We’ve done a lot of reporting on Gen Z. Earlier this summer, we decided to ask them to report on themselves.Â
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