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We inhabited a strange, liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. On the one hand, there were moments of feeling invincible. I smoked cigarettes and didn’t care what they might be doing to my body. We sat out on fire escapes and ledges, not worrying that we might fall. On the …

TikTok uses machine learning to predict which videos an individual user is most likely to interact with and then populates their feed with these videos. A “similarity check” replaces videos that look and sound too much like one another to ensure just enough variety so that users don’t get bored. …

Over the past few years, an increasing number of adults are getting ADHD diagnoses. Some seek out diagnosis and treatment for themselves after helping a child through the process. Others start to wonder about the possibility after seeing themselves reflected in stories shared on social media. In many cases, an …

New technologies between my Raffi tapes and now have fundamentally transformed the way we consume music and all other audiovisual content. With a few taps on my phone, I can find a recording of almost any song I’ve ever heard — usually for free. But this unfettered access comes at …

It can impact relationship satisfaction. Here’s how to identify this harmful cycle.

For most of my life, my hair has been long, dark, wavy and thick. So thick that when I was growing up, the neighborhood salon charged extra for my cuts because they involved such a great quantity of hair. Blow-drying took ages as the poor stylist worked through layer after …

Coming up to the finish line of the next presidential election, there are indications that Americans are again worried about the possibility of political violence.

“It’s becoming more and more apparent that everything is political, and for so many folks, for women, for queer people, for people of color, for people whose identities span multiple of those things, I think our existence is political,” said Henry.

In the video, a group of boys who appear to be around 10 years old surrounds one of their peers. The blond boy in the middle of the circle anxiously shifts his weight. You might think some cruel mockery or another kind of bullying behavior is about to ensue — …

When you hear the words “pelvic floor therapist,” you might first think of Kegel exercises, which, if you have a vagina, someone has probably told you to be doing. Maybe you’re aware that many people who have given birth often have urinary incontinence afterward, or even that in France, it’s …

The truth is that the biggest mistake we can make is to say nothing. Research shows that when it comes to substance abuse, parents’ actions (like allowing kids to drink at home) matter — and so do their words. Studies have found that teens who believe their parents have a …

In his first sit-down interview since the June 27 debate, Biden told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he didn’t believe the polling on his standing in the campaign tells the whole story, and he denied that his allies in the Democratic Party would definitively call for him to step down.

I expected many things would be assumed of me, including: I was a specific kind of woman (one who’d grown up thinking about her wedding and not being the boy); I was straight (Haley had asked, “How’d you know this was your dude?” but did, to her credit, seamlessly adjust …

If you’re going through something similar to Gwyneth, Emily Mendez a former psychotherapist and mental health writer, says that although it’s not easy, there are ways to deal with the grief.

“A kid who has their first drink in eighth grade, they have an almost 50% lifelong risk of developing substance use disorder. If it’s pushed by two years, into 10th grade, it drops by half, and if it’s pushed by another two years until they’re 18, it drops again by …

Despite my high comfort level with sensitive subjects (we’d already covered sexual consent, teen pregnancy and STIs), the delivery of this hot-button news item from a 15-year-old honors student left me momentarily speechless. How could there be yet another beauty standard — especially for a concealed body part — to …

Every morning, as I watch the sun come up over the mountains I never thought I’d live in again, I give thanks for everything in my life that brought me to this moment. Especially that diagnosis. It taught me that I had no time to waste. It taught me how …

Jennifer Wallace is a journalist and author of the forthcoming book “Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic ― And What We Can Do About It.” From a survey she conducted on the topic, and an extensive series of interviews with kids, families, teachers and psychologists, Wallace concluded that “too …

Stories about highly ambitious kids are told in fairytale terms, but in reality, being a young prodigy can be a nightmare. We desperately want our kids to be top achievers, but we don’t have the infrastructure to support them as they reach for increasingly unattainable ideals. Plenty of officials have …

Now that all the coverage of the performances and style at this year’s Essence Fest has mellowed out, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room: the concept that the festival facilitators have a “new audience” in mind. Namely, younger Black women.

I cut my first date with Brandon short, rushing off to an editor’s birthday dinner and a New York Fashion Week after-party. So imagine my shock when I woke up in his bed, with no memory of how I’d gotten there. Feeling disoriented, I hastily made my exit.

While the app has strict rules prohibiting branded content promoting alcohol, creators are still allegedly making money drinking to excess — and at least one has died.

Friday’s trip to Connecticut shows the issue is key for Biden as he starts up his campaign travel.

My courses were completely online in the first year, including orientation week. Presenters spoke about how they met their future partners or made lifelong friends during their time in college. I couldn’t even see my classmates’ profile pictures. We had to keep the cameras off in our Zoom sessions to …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Republicans are locked in a standoff over federal spending and whether to tighten “work requirements” in certain federal programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

“We are putting out a clear call to all of our shops: Do not allow people to enter the store without taking off their face mask. And then once they’re inside, they can continue to wear it if they so desire to do so,” Adams said on Monday during an …