Tag: Youth
Young Voters Are Fed Up With Their (Much) Older Leaders
Alexandra Chadwick went to the polls in 2020 with the singular goal of ousting Donald J. Trump. A…
Parents Sue TikTok, Saying Children Died After Viewing ‘Blackout Challenge’
“Elementary-school-aged children do not have the knowledge or the insight to realize that these are dangerous things to…
Young Politicians Seek Change, but Face Hurdles as Old as Politics
SEOUL — Jung Seong-hoon, 22, shared the frustrations of young South Koreans looking at a bleak future: Jobs…
The 20-Somethings Who Help the 70-Somethings Run Washington
The average age of a House staffer is 31, according to the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to…
The Battle Over Gender Therapy
And just like that, after four years of painstaking work, Leibowitz, de Vries and the rest of their…
Report Reveals Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
The number of young people who identify as transgender has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a…
Deadliest Mass Shootings Are Mostly by People 21 or Younger
The 22-year-old college student who murdered six people in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 2014 offered one of the…
Colombia Election: Angry, Mobilized and Voting for Gustavo Petro
A large and loud youth electorate hungry to transform one of Latin America’s most unequal societies could propel…
C.D.C. Is Investigating 109 Cases of Hepatitis in Children, Including 5 Deaths
The deaths of five children and what may be an unusual group of more than 100 hepatitis cases…
Discreetly, the Young in Japan Chip Away at a Taboo on Tattoos
TOKYO — Ayaka Kizu, a web designer in Tokyo, stood by her office desk one recent day, peeling…
How Young Latinos’ Online and TV Habits Offer Political Clues for 2022
Greetings from your co-host Leah Askarinam. Blake Hounshell is off this week. We have an item tonight from…
Red States Push L.G.B.T.Q. Restrictions as Education Battles Intensify
Last April, a high school senior in Utah named Gabriela Merida joined a student town hall hosted by…