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October 29, 2025
Grace Segers
How Gen Z Anime Fans Are Reshaping American Protests
The popularity of the series
One Piece
has inspired Zoomer demonstrators across the world. Could young people in the U.S. be the next to adopt that imagery?
April 9, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s Approval Rating Quickly Plummets Among Young People
A new poll shows young people are leaving Team Trump in droves.
February 10, 2025
Grace Segers
Gen Zers Long for a Simpler Time They Never Knew
Nostalgia is a powerful political motivator for young people. But they may be yearning for an era that never existed.
October 28, 2024
Grace Segers
The Young Voters Harris Desperately Needs Out West
In Arizona and Nevada, enthusiasm from Generation Z—or the lack thereof—could determine who wins the White House.
June 19, 2023
Charlotte Kilpatrick
Republicans Aren’t Even Hiding Their War on Young People
A new GOP budget scheme would force the next generation to work longer and guarantee them an unlivable planet.
February 21, 2023
Aaron R. Hanlon
College Students Are Tired of Being Treated Like Employees
Generation Z is struggling. Is it because they’re too “fragile,” as some pundits claim, or because universities are increasingly acting like human resources departments?
November 10, 2022
Tori Otten
Republicans Are So Mad at the Huge Youth Turnout They Want to Increase the Voting Age
Gen Z came out in huge numbers this election. Now Republicans are trying to decide what the new voting age should be.
November 9, 2022
Prem Thakker
Maxwell Frost Wins, Becomes First Gen Z and Afro-Cuban Member of Congress
The 25-year-old from Florida is now the youngest member of Congress.
December 2, 2021
Magazine
Sam Adler-Bell
The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right
They hate the establishment. They want to destroy the system. Meet the illiberal upstarts trying to remake conservatism.
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November 15, 2021
Magazine
James Chappel
End the Generation Wars
Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
March 27, 2019
Daniel Kolitz
In Search of Generation Z
An unscrupulous, money-hungry marketing industry helped define the millennials, often with wildly inept results. And now it's getting to work on the next cohort.
March 1, 2019
Rachel Syme
The Anguish of the “Old Millennial”
“The Other Two” portrays a micro-generation that’s too young for Gen X complacency and too old for YouTube fame.
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