Renee Good, Victim in Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Remembered for Her Kindness www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

As Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Pushes Into High Schools, Dissension Follows www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Gen Z Is More Progressive Than Millennials, Except in One Crucial Way The most progressive generation ever? It’s complicated. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Can Teaching Self-Compassion Improve Teen Mental Health? According to a new study, helping adolescents feel compassion for themselves can reduce suicidal ideation. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

From Adolescence to the manosphere: has 2025 been the year of the boy? Much attention was paid to the problem of misogyny, but focus was also placed on issues such as paternity leave and mental health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. wapo.st/49zDc43

Making the Invisible Visible: How Misogyny Is Driving Rising Political Violence msmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...

Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.

Teens are having disturbing interactions with chatbots. Here's how to lower the risks www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...

The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/b...

What is happening to ethnic studies in California? edsource.org/2025/what-is...

In Teen Health Today, I share my 10 favorite books of 2025, including great reads from: @margaretgmyers.bsky.social @milleridriss.bsky.social @sorayachemaly.bsky.social @sdtaylor.bsky.social Matt Richtel Melinda Wenner Moyer + Ashanti Branch. Read here: www.teenhealthtoday.com/p/teen-healt...

A wave of large-scale studies is quantifying how early smartphone access and heavy screen use can harm adolescent minds. The numbers suggest screens are taking a broader, deeper toll on teens than many expected.

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. “Dig Me Out” is the one for me. Not sure I’ve ever loved a band as intensely as I loved Sleater-Kinney in 1997.

Hello from my aunt’s basement/museum

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit. Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.

It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.

Wirecutter: The Best Condoms www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Trump’s New Marijuana Policy Offers an Opportunity "Marijuana has been tied to psychosis and other health problems. I still think it’s safer than alcohol." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die wapo.st/49lKx7a

Inside the PSL Scale: The Looksmaxxer Rating System That All the Teenagers Are Referencing www.gq.com/story/inside...

FDA approves first new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea in decades, with hope to combat drug resistance www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/h...

12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

What the reclassification of marijuana would mean for Americans wapo.st/48ZtAOD

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana The move doesn't legalize marijuana, but the reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Deepfake Porn Crisis Is Here Women have almost no protection in the US—but there is hope on the horizon. Glamour takes you inside the fight against deepfake porn www.glamour.com/story/the-de...

What 200 Gen Z Women Told Me About Birth Control Should Alarm Every Woman in America A survey of young women reveals how online misinformation, not politics, is quietly dismantling trust in contraception. msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/y...

How the Phone Ban Saved High School Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation and poker. nymag.com/intelligence...

Boys as young as 11 will be sent on anti-misogyny courses designed to stamp out violence against women and girls, under government plans. Pupils who show harmful behaviour will be signed up to “behaviour change programmes” in schools

THRILLED to see "TALK TO YOUR BOYS" on this list!!! Our Favorite Parenting Books of 2025 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

A Mental Health First Aid Training Helps Address Growing Rural Mental Health Crisis dailyyonder.com/a-mental-hea...

Millions of Children and Teens Lose Access to Accounts as Australia’s World-First Social Media Ban Begins www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Real Cost of Pretending Sex Education Doesn’t Exist www.them.us/story/inclus...

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

As of June 2024, WaPo estimated that, since 1999, over 300,000 kids in the United States have been impacted by gun violence at school. Not even counting the untold millions exposed to our ambient level of societal gun violence each year.

“The U.S. is becoming a tale of two countries in terms of abortion access and abortion policy,” said @ushma.bsky.social. But, she added, “All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care."

This recent study found learning management systems sold to schools since the 2010s as time-savers (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) tend to be burdensome and contribute to burnout.

On the day the brothers left Romania for Florida, The Times asked their lawyer whether the Trump administration had aided in their release: “Do the math,” he said. “These guys are on the plane.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

'This Is the Blind Spot in Extremism Research': Cynthia Miller-Idriss on Misogyny, Gender and Violence msmagazine.com/2025/12/05/g...

I just got around to reading this amazing piece and would recommend others do so, too

Where Does Education End and Indoctrination Begin? Debates over what teachers are teaching are creating a culture of fear and self-censorship in American education. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...