Why Boomers and Gen X’ers Are Wrong to Bash Gen Z
I used to worry about this allegedly cosseted generation. Then came the shootings in Parkland, and I began to see another side of these young people that humbles me.
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What Happens When We Turn to Smartphones to Escape Our Kids?
I'm hopeful that the next generation of children, after watching us be fools for our devices, may decide it's not worth it.
Two New Accounts of How Corporations (and Conservatives) Have Thwarted Action on Climate Change
Nathaniel Rich recounts America's failure to act on global warming in the 1980s; Bill McKibben offers dire prophecies about climate—and artificial intelligence.
‘The Horse Nation Is Here for Us’: How Lakota Culture Is Helping Treat Child Trauma in South Dakota
Greg Grey Cloud is combining traditional Lakota horse rituals with equine therapy to treat PTSD—and much more.
The Far Right Doesn’t Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It
Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups who promote equality.
Why Did the Suffragettes Write One of Their Fiercest Fighters Out of Their History?
A new biography sheds light on the suffragette movement's attempts to cover up its own more radical past.
The GOP Movement to Gut Medicaid Has Come to Tennessee
Tennessee has been purging people from its Medicaid rolls, while the legislature is working to promote caps on the program.
We Need More Research Into Antidepressant Withdrawal
Getting off my antidepressant was hell. I'm not alone—and the pharmaceutical industry isn't helping.
How We Can Teach Gen Z a Better Kind of Media Literacy
Young people's ability to navigate the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak.
Are Elite Institutions Teaching Students the Wrong Values?
There's a clear need to rethink what "impact" means, given the concept's distorting effect on students' priorities and ethics.