The teens are better than us—this much we know. But if you need another reminder, here’s one: students from Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Drama Club lovingly brought down the house at the Tony Awards on Sunday night with an excellent rendition of the classic Rent song, “Seasons of Love.” There was…
Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why—the controversial teen soap that portrays death by suicide, rape, sexual violence and other various traumas in excruciating, gratuitous detail—has been green-lit for a third season. Why ask why.
Heyyy teens, knock knock, adult here, just checking in on what y’all are up to on the internet, I can come back later.......nevermind it’s cool I’ll just read this Pew Research study, nbd.
Last night, 14-year-old Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, Texas, rocking rectangular glasses and a smooth bowl cut, won the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling the word “koinonia,” meaning “communion.” The runner-up, Naysa Modi, was felled by the arguably much more difficult word “bewusstseinslage,”…
Eons ago, in the year 2008, Miley Cyrus was just about to break away from the Disney Channel show Hannah Montana and embark on a long journey of self-discovery and occasional cultural appropriation. To jumpstart it, she teamed up for a Vanity Fair photoshoot with Annie Leibovitz—one that racked up a lot of…
Across the country, as part of The Sex Ed Sit Out, parents pulled their kids out of school yesterday to protest “graphic, gender-bending sex education.” (As usual, the self-parody absolutely performs itself.) As the protest’s chief organizer, Elizabeth Johnston, told Breitbart, “A few of us moms were disgusted by the…
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Encouraging news for parents of teens and future teens: The prom is getting cheaper! Kinda. Sorta.
The recent high school graduates of Norway reportedly know how to get around. But maybe not all the way around.
If American teen TV isn’t juicy enough and British teen TV is too real, please divert your attention to the romantic and melodramatic stylings of the K-drama and prepare to be taken on a journey.
The majority of my eighth grade memories involve moments of immense anxiety—largely related to socializing—which happens to align perfectly with my memories of right now. Comedian Bo Burnham’s directorial feature debut Eighth Grade, which I got a chance to see at Sundance, picks up on and projects many of the fears…
What do Daniel Kaluuya, Gilly and Gendry from Game of Thrones, and Dev Patel all have in common?
On Wednesday, 17 people were killed in a mass shooting. Former student Nikolas Cruz was identified as the gunman and charged with murder. The president has blamed the massacre on mental illness, once more side-stepping discussions about gun control. Teen activists are now going directly to his house to talk about it.
As people grow older they’ll still return, time and time again, to the music that first enraptured them as teenagers. So if you’ve ever wondered, “Why the hell are New Kids on the Block still successfully touring despite not having any hits since 1990?,” here’s your answer!
Young Adult literature is a booming industry, but it has changed a lot since this writer was a hormonal teen reader. Where do the kids go for literary smut these days? The educational, respectful smut?
Morgan Geyser, one of the two teens accused of stabbing classmate Payton Leutner at the behest of “Slender Man,” a fictional phenomenon created by the internet, has been sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution in lieu of jail time.
Here’s a trailer for On My Block, a coming-of-age comedy from Netflix featuring a bunch of cute teens just trying to live, which I will probably describe at some point towards the end of March as something I’ve been “meaning to watch.”
Recently there have been several news reports about teenagers eating laundry detergent for fun. If you’re confused by this, don’t be alarmed! This post is here to help.
Stephen Miller, an angry, obnoxious teen masquerading as an adult man, sat down for an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday afternoon. The interview did not go well, to put it mildly, and when Tapper pressed Miller on some of the depictions of the Trump administration in the new Michael Wolff tell-all Fire and…
On Monday, Ivanka Trump dropped in on Connecticut high school Norwalk Early College Academy, much to the chagrin of parents who say they should have been informed that their children would be coming in contact with a Trump. Some students were pulled from the classroom—but shouldn’t they have been allowed to savage her…
