Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health. Rebecca Jennings Photo by Christina Animashaun/Vox When I first downloaded TikTok, in the fall of 2018, it only took a few days for my algorithm to figure out that I have ADHD. To be fair, this isn’t all that impressive, as TikTok and the rest of Read More…
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The Supreme Court Is Running Away From Transgender Rights Cases
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth. By Ian Millhiser Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Read More…
A Mountain Of Used Clothes Appeared In Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up In Flames
The fashion industry has created a sprawling informal disposal network across the world—that brings with it money, conflict, and environmental destruction. This story originally appeared on Grist and was copublished with El País. It’s reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program Read More…
Remove Cuba From SSOT List
A majority of the Massachusetts congressional delegation is pushing President Biden to remove Cuba from a list of governments that sponsor terrorism, a designation issued in the waning days of the Trump administration. In a December letter not previously made public, the members panned Trump’s inclusion of Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list Read More…
Black Students Find Allies In Quest For Better Mental Health
By Patrick Wall For Black students like Yanie, center, discussing their mental health and trauma in their lives can be especially difficult. A peer-mentoring program piloted last year by the East Orange, New Jersey school district — which Yanie participated in — aims to support students like her. (Sarah Blesener for Chalkbea When a friend Read More…
School Choice: No Longer “If,” but “How”
– Over the last thirty years, the efforts of parents, educators, and state leaders have laid the foundation for a pluralistic sea change in how we think about the education options available to families in the U.S. But over the last four, things went from incremental to warp speed. In 2023, 20 states added or Read More…








