Youth

"We are striking because if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then the system is forced to face the climate crisis and enact change."

Youth protest during the seventh annual Brussels youth climate march on February 21st, 2019, in Brussels, Belgium.

The Catholic Church's youth rally has drawn 200,000 pilgrims from around the world to Panama City.

This is the most interest in a mid-term election that pollsters have seen since 2006.

Reviewing the government's expert testimony, we can see what its strategy will be as the Juliana case comes to trial.

The Trump administration is asking the United States Supreme Court to block a lawsuit filed by young Americans seeking to force more federal action on climate change.

A dispatch from the fourth annual youth-led Uplift Climate Conference in New Mexico.

The Boy Scouts of America is changing the name of its older youth program from Boy Scouts to Scouts BSA, the organization announced today.

There is a large need for putting young people at the helm of addressing some of our country’s most pressing problems.

Young people are drinking and doing drugs less than ever before. What happened to the tawdriness of youth?

Beyond the cyclical criminalization that the device provokes, its rules and circumstances clash with the infrastructure of the teenage mind.

The only federal law that regulates detention conditions for juveniles is due for an upgrade.

A new Supreme Court case could affect thousands of prisoners serving life sentences without parole for crimes they committed as teens.

A new analysis of crime stats suggests that economics trumps biology in causing violent behavior in teenagers.

Who are we really protecting when we treat kids like second-class citizens?

The factors and figures behind the so-called “foster care to prostitution pipeline”

States pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to keep each juvenile offender behind bars. A new report calculates that long-term costs of incarceration could add up to $21 billion annually.

A new study finds an inconsistent patchwork of policies across states for how juvenile records are sealed and expunged.

A new study of Texas teens found no connection between reading edgy books and mental health issues or delinquent behavior.

New research finds 6.4 percent of top hits include a mention of a specific brand of alcohol.