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WATCH: The Gen-Z Debate with Harry Sisson and Isabel Brown
Why are young people struggling so much with everything from finances to mental health?
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Should We Judge Age-Gap Relationships?
Netflix’s ‘Age of Attraction’ dating show breaks the age-gap taboo—and also shows why it exists.
Kat Rosenfield
Meta’s Been Found Guilty of Exploiting My Generation. So Why Don’t I Feel Better?
A Los Angeles jury just confirmed the damage caused by social media. But as Britain rolls out age-verification and online surveillance laws, the…
Freya India
Where Did All the Bisexual Women Go?
The 2010s saw a sharp rise in non-straight identity. Its reversal is upending the narrative around sexuality.
Jean Twenge
The Weekend Press: The Girls Who Hate Men
Plus: Two drinks with a former governor who resigned over a meeting with Epstein. A plot to kill a man on the Appalachian Trail. Suzy Weiss on our…
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How Instagram Broke Its Promise to Protect Teens
Newly unsealed court documents show Meta executives scrambling to save face: ‘We’re exposed with nowhere to hide.’
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Why Hazing Makes Better Men
Last week, a series of police body-camera videos from a fraternity basement at the University of Iowa went viral. But the internet got it all wrong.
Catherine Morrissette
Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone
Keeping kids out of school is risky—I know, because I did it.
Larissa Phillips
Screens Are Stressing You Out of Your Mind
Every era has its social contagions. In the 18th century, it was romantic despair. In 2026, it’s the compulsive scroll—and it’s rewiring our stress…
Arthur Brooks
Inside the Christian Civil War over Antisemitism
‘To be antisemitic is to be anti-Christian,’ a famous Catholic once said. Today, many young Catholics believe that’s outdated.
Peter Savodnik
Arthur Brooks: Why Are Young People Choosing OnlyFans over Love?
The answer, I believe, is fear.
Arthur Brooks
Whatever Happened to Sex? Plus . . .
A Harvard student says the university has to stop giving everyone A’s. A former FBI agent explains how the agency investigates kidnappings. Gabe…
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