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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.

What Young Workers Need to Know About Paid Leave

Paid sick leave is the top workplace benefit young adults prioritize.

Young People From Low-Income Backgrounds Do a Different Kind of Unpaid Labor

It’s often discounted and undervalued.

I Should Have the Right to Hug My Incarcerated Dad

The jail my dad is in got rid of in-person visits years ago.

Young People of Color Are Often Left Scrambling When Their Loved One Dies

What I learned when my dad passed away.

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.

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.

I’m a Rabbi Who Is Calling for Ceasefire. Here’s Why.

It’s what my dad, a Holocaust survivor, would have wanted.

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.”

I Was a Teen in Solitary Confinement

There is no healing in those conditions.

Where Are All the Parents in the Climate Movement?

It’s past time for our parents and caregivers to show up.

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.

Adoptees Shouldn’t Have to Feel Grateful

"Adoption just isn’t that positive win-win-win for all people.”

They Lost Their Loved Ones — Then the Conspiracy Theories Started

“What do I do? Do I laugh? Do I cry?”

Black Studies Has Helped Me Understand My Chinese Family

Rather than “indoctrinating” me, it’s done the exact opposite.

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.

Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed

One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.

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.”

A Post-Roe America Demands Guaranteed Income

If states can force people to have children, we must force states to financially provide for them.

Zaya Wade Opens Up about Educating Her Trans-Affirming Family in Debut Cover

Just one week after making her runway debut.