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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
I Couldn’t Distill My Trauma Into a College Essay
The admissions process assumes it’s easy for students to summarize our lives.
By Emi Nietfeld
Snoop Dogg’s Daughter Cori Broadus Found That Forever Kind of Love
“God literally picked him for me.”
By Kaitlyn McNabPhotography by Thalía Gochez
From Getting Kicked Out of High School to Working in the White House
Meet Dr. Alister Martin.
By Adaira Landry
For the Holidays, Chosen Family Can Be Better Than the Real Thing
Read why these young people are spending the cheerful season with friends.
By Fortesa Latifi
A Harvard Museum Has Kept the Hair of Native Children for Decades
“Indigenous cultures regard hair as sacred, alive, and an expression of one’s spirit.”
By Samantha Maltais and Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen
How Gen Z Activist Sophia Shapiro Helped Her Dad Become Governor
The college student helped mobilize the youth vote.
By Rachel Janfaza
These Cruel Policies Prevent People in Prison From Receiving Mail
“Mail is a little piece of home,” one 14-year-old says of her letters to her dad.
By Alaina Demopoulos
What I Learned Growing Up in a Conservative Black Christian Family
In college, I began to question the beliefs I grew up surrounded by.
By Hannah Mason
6 Young People on How Guaranteed Income Programs Changed Their Lives
“It gave me this feeling, like we’re gonna be okay.”
By Jacqui Germain
My Republican Grandpa Helped Champion Abortion Rights
As a state lawmaker from North Dakota in the 1960s.
By Katrina Froelich
What It’s Like to Live In a State Run By Politicians You Can’t Stand
“At first, there was this huge urge to just get away and get out.”
By Elizabeth Djinis
What Life Looks Like for Young Ukrainian Refugees
These photos take you inside their day to day lives.
By Jonathan Frydman