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‘Love Island’ Fans Are Awful
The contestants are young, dumb, and unbelievably hot. Yet spectators demand that none of them ever, ever made a teenage mistake on the internet.
Kara Kennedy
The SAT Is Back. But Is There a Better Alternative?
Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He says he’s ‘in a battle to save Western civilization.’
Maya Sulkin
How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids
They’re vibe coding with the kids on Saturday mornings and using a bot as a 24-7 family therapist. Meet the parents who have seen the future and want…
Evan Gardner
The Making of a Teenage Terror Suspect
Extremists know which kids to target online: young, male, and isolated. An Ohio family never imagined their autistic son would be one of them.
Maya Sulkin
Watch: How Discord Radicalized Our Son
Maya Sulkin investigates how an Ohio teenager was raided by the FBI after he was targeted by jihadis online.
Maya Sulkin
17M
I Gave My Kid a Screen-Free Summer—and You Can Too
After years of nightly fights over YouTube and Netflix with my 8-year-old daughter, I decided to hide every screen in our house for the summer. It…
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD
Eat Thy Neighbor’s Sourdough
I went deep into the world of ‘cottage food.’ Plus: A conversation with Freya India about how the internet ruined girlhood—and if we can ever get it…
Suzy Weiss
‘Call Her Daddy,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and the New Template for Girlhood
Freya India breaks down why adolescence is more miserable than ever for girls.
Suzy Weiss
1HR 4M
Arthur Brooks: The Saddest Countries All Speak English
The English-speaking world doesn’t use social media more than the rest of the world—but it uses it differently, in ways that may be fueling isolation…
Arthur Brooks
The Rise and Fall of America’s First N-Word Influencer
‘Chud the Builder’ goes viral by walking up to black people and using racial slurs. He was just arrested for shooting someone. How did we get here?
River Page
This Company Was an American Success Story. Until MAHA Influencers Sank It.
All it took was two Facebook posts to turn an online mob against Apeel Sciences and its booming business of keeping food fresh longer.
Laurie P. Cohen
Arthur Brooks: Inside the Mind of an Internet Troll
Why do comment sections on news stories—and even on essays about love and happiness—so quickly become toxic dumps of vitriol?
Arthur Brooks
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