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Tim Walz Shared the Sweet Story Behind the Friendship Bracelets He Wore on the Debate Stage
Walz was given the “lucky charm” by his daughter.
By Kathleen Walsh
What Young Workers Need to Know About Paid Leave
Paid sick leave is the top workplace benefit young adults prioritize.
By Rainesford Stauffer
Young People From Low-Income Backgrounds Do a Different Kind of Unpaid Labor
It’s often discounted and undervalued.
By Anthony Abraham Jack
I Should Have the Right to Hug My Incarcerated Dad
The jail my dad is in got rid of in-person visits years ago.
By Maggie McDonald
Young People of Color Are Often Left Scrambling When Their Loved One Dies
What I learned when my dad passed away.
By Zoë Watkins
Here's How to Have an Adult Relationship With Your Parents
You’re going to bump heads with your parents — it’s basically a rite of passage.
By Syeda Khaula Saad
My Immigrant Family's Journey From a California Gas Station to My Harvard Graduation
David Velasquez will be the first person to graduate from Harvard’s Business School, Kennedy School, and Medical School at the same time.
By Adaira Landry
I’m a Rabbi Who Is Calling for Ceasefire. Here’s Why.
It’s what my dad, a Holocaust survivor, would have wanted.
By Rabbi Elliot Kukla
What It’s Like to Return to the Home You Fled as a Child
“Entering this world as a refugee, you know that home is never really home.”
By Maebel Gebremedhin
Where Are All the Parents in the Climate Movement?
It’s past time for our parents and caregivers to show up.
By Helen Mancini and Eliza Clark
The Child Welfare System Traumatizes Black and Brown Kids
The vast majority of kids caught up in child welfare cases are African American or Latino.
By Chanel Smith
Adoptees Shouldn’t Have to Feel Grateful
"Adoption just isn’t that positive win-win-win for all people.”
By Logan Hoffman-Smith
They Lost Their Loved Ones — Then the Conspiracy Theories Started
“What do I do? Do I laugh? Do I cry?”
By Fortesa Latifi
Black Studies Has Helped Me Understand My Chinese Family
Rather than “indoctrinating” me, it’s done the exact opposite.
By Isabella Zou
Pollution Caused My Skin Condition and Turned Me Into a Climate Activist
Kamea, 10, also has asthma caused by the petrochemical pollution in Sulphur, LA.
By Kamea Sibley Ozane and Roishetta Sibley Ozane
Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed
One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.
By Jacqui Germain
How Parents Are Fighting to Get Their Trans Kids the Care They Need
One parent said they want to show their son they're "deserving of every normal, dumb, good thing.”
By Colleen Hamilton
A Post-Roe America Demands Guaranteed Income
If states can force people to have children, we must force states to financially provide for them.
By Kelsey Soderberg
Zaya Wade Opens Up about Educating Her Trans-Affirming Family in Debut Cover
Just one week after making her runway debut.
By James Factora