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How To Help Teens Find Purpose Amid The Mental Health Crisis

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Afghan Children Are Suffering in the U.S. Immigration System

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How Gen Z Baristas Are Spreading the Starbucks Unionization Effort

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Youth Activists at COP26 Won't Settle For Climate Delay

You won’t fool the children of the revolution. British glam rock band T-Rex issued this warning in a single back in 1972 (just five years before oil company Exxon quietly received its first report about...

By Ciara Nugent

30 in 2030: Planning for the Future

Climate change has been a constant and increasingly urgent issue throughout the lifetimes of those in Generation Z. In the past year alone, devastating wildfires raged in North America, Europe, and Russia, catastrophic flooding hit...

By Eloise Barry

30 in 2030: A Generation Creating Change

It’s no secret that mental health was the collateral damage of the pandemic, with illness, loss and financial hardship weighing heavily on billions around the world. Those in Generation Z have been greatly impacted, since...

By Eloise Barry

30 in 2030: Coming of Age During a Pandemic

TIME spoke to six young adults who will turn 30 in 2030 about their hopes for the future and what they are doing to make them a reality

By Eloise Barry

Young People Are Leaving Their Jobs in Record Numbers—And Not Going Back

Life for Whitney Green looks a little different these days. She wakes up to the sounds of Rome: scooter engines echoing off cobblestones, the lilting chatter of café patrons collecting their morning espresso shots. She...

By Raisa Bruner

How Activists Are Radically Interrogating Berlin’s Colonial Past—and Reshaping Its Future

A group of activists, artists and educators is working to draw attention to Germany's dark history of colonialism through mapping, exhibitions, walking tours and more

By Suyin Haynes

Latino Entrepreneurs Were Among the Hardest Hit by the Pandemic. Now They Could Spur the Economic Recovery

Jaime Macias could hardly have opened his bar and restaurant, Jaime’s Place, at a worse time. In the weeks before his scheduled grand opening in October 2020, COVID-19 ran rampant through San Antonio. Restrictions had...

By Jasmine Aguilera/San Antonio , Andrew R. Chow and Mariah Espada

75% of the Young People Around the World are Frightened of the Future Because of Climate Change

Growing up in the emerging reality of the climate crisis is taking its toll on young people’s mental health. According to a global survey and peer-reviewed study soon to be published in Lancet Planetary Health,...

By Ciara Nugent

Meet the Young People Shaping Health's Post-Pandemic Future

'I truly did find my calling'

By Tara Law

How Europe's Young Backpackers Forged a New Wave of International Collaboration

And saved priceless works of art, too

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Russia's Children

Russia's Children A generation born under Vladimir Putin Photographs by YURI KOZYREV—NOOR Text by SIMON SHUSTER Stop by any classroom or college in Russia, and there’s one thing that pretty much all the students will...

E-Cigarettes Are a Public Health Threat to Young People, Surgeon General Warns

One in six high school students use e-cigarettes

By Alexandra Sifferlin

A Visual Diary of Youth in New York's Streets

The book addresses the community own lack of representation in the media

By Cassidy Paul

A Young Syrian Refugee Dreams of Going to School

Her family fled war in Syria, but Zahra, 5, is "trapped" in a country next door

By Andrew Katz

The Boy in the Ambulance

Silent and in shock, a child rescued after a reported airstrike becomes the face of Aleppo

By Andrew Katz

1 in 5 American Kids Has Abnormal Levels of Cholesterol

New federal data shows U.S. young people are not immune to having out of whack cholesterol

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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