Anna North

Rape threats and other sexist posts are going viral after the election. It’s part of a pattern.

For now, I’m thinking locally.

Why we’ve said goodbye to the Goosebumps of our youth.

Grade-tracking apps are giving kids anxiety.

Grind culture has come for the teens.

What young people want out of this election

The disappearance of bus service is hurting kids around the country.

Kids love to eat them. Parents love to fight about them.

Test scores show students haven’t made up the ground they lost during the pandemic.

Phones and iPads are replacing offline play, but the trend can be reversed.

Inside Gen Alpha’s relationship with tech.

Your guide to the exciting, confusing, and utterly new world of American childhood.

Public schools rigid accommodations for students with disabilities are making parents search for alternatives.

People who commit public shootings in America share some risk factors in common.

What is “maternal mortality”? The dry, clinical term obscures a devastating loss: A person dies as a result of bringing a child into the world. That child loses a parent; a household is plunged into grief; a family that should be celebrating is left to mourn. Pretty much everyone can agree that such deaths are tragic and that even one is too many. What experts don’t agree on is how to count them. For years, researchers have been warning the public that maternal deaths in America were rising, mor…

Imagine you’re eight months pregnant, and you wake up in the middle of the night to a bolt of pain across your belly. Terrified you might be losing your pregnancy, you rush to the emergency room — only to be told that no one there will care for you, because they’re worried they could be accused of participating in an abortion. The staff tells you to drive to another hospital, but that will take hours, by which time, it might be too late. Such frightening experiences are growing more common in t…

Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America. Typically, the only way to do it was to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some form of wrongdoing, like adultery, abandonment, or “cruelty” (that is, abuse). This could be difficult: “Even if you could prove you had been hit, that didn’t necessarily mean it rose to the level of cruelty that justified a divorce,” said Marcia Zug, a family law professor at the University of South Carolina. Then came a revolution: In 196…

With Donald Trump convicted on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, commentators and ordinary voters alike are debating what happens next and how (if at all) the verdict will affect the election. In this flurry of argument and speculation, one important aspect of the case risks getting lost: what Trump actually did to Stormy Daniels. On the stand, Daniels painted a picture of a powerful man who invited her back to his hotel room, offered her a chance to be on his reality show, unexpectedly disro…

One TikTok creator told viewers it took her six years to “fix her hormones” after stopping birth control. Another cut up a pack of birth control pills that she said “ruined me as a person.” A third called it “one of the most damaging things you can put in your body.” Hormonal contraception is getting a flood of bad buzz across social media, where posters are listing side effects like depression, anxiety, low sex drive, acne, unwanted weight changes, and more. While it’s hard to measure the size…

There’s a lot of debate about the role of technology in kids’ lives, but sometimes we come across something unequivocally bad. That’s the case with AI “nudification” apps, which teenagers are using to generate and share fake naked photos of their classmates. At Issaquah High School in Washington state, boys used an app to “strip” photos of girls who attended last fall’s homecoming dance, according to the New York Times. At Westfield High School in New Jersey, 10th grade boys created fabricated e…