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Timothy Carney argued that modern parenting is producing a generation of children with record rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness and says a more old-fashioned approach is needed. T…

Social media political commentators Steven Bonnell and Brad Polumbo talked about social media, young voters, and campaign 2024.

Political strategists discussed how young voters could impact the 2024 election cycle and political strategies for courting young voters. Panelists also discussed challenges the Democratic a…

Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, whistleblower Arturo Bejar, a former Meta engineering director and consultant, testified on Meta’s harmful impact on children. He said that …

Mattie Kahn talked about young girls who helped to ignite key social movements in American history such as 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for r…

Fairplay Executive Director Josh Golin discussed recent legal challenges to social media companies over claims the platforms negatively impact youth mental health.

Vice President Kamala Harris gave remarks at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C. She started with the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying that the U.S. must stand…

American University’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics Executive Director Amy Dacey discussed the findings of their recent survey focusing on young Americans' perspectives on politics, co…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered closing remarks at the Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit, a gathering of young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in W…

North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton, the youngest state party chair in the country, discussed her outreach to young and rural voters, during a virtual event with the Washi…

The Peer-to-Peer Movement: Students Saving Lives was one of the second-prize high school west division winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Aria Rani Sindledecker, a…

Ella Scott’s Banned Book Club: How Students Are Fighting Back In The War Over Censorship and Ideas was one of the second-prize middle school winners in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam document…

Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle talked about his book, Forgive Everyone Everything, and work done by Homeboy Industries, the Los Angeles-based gang intervention program that he founded in 1992. …

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy took part in a panel discussion on improving youth mental health. The topic came amid reports of teenagers experiencing an increase of mental health cha…

“It’s a bigger message to everybody else, to not count young people out of the process, not count young people out of anything,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) as he addressed the impact of …

Mental health practitioners, educators and students testified on the mental health needs of kids and teenagers before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Childre…

Eve Levenson and Bo Machayo, co-founders of YouthInGov, talked about efforts to have young people better represented in policymaking. YouthInGov is a coalition of over 100 youth serving orga…

Young America’s Foundation President and former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) talked about what young people are intersted in as they vote in the 2022 midterm elections. He also discus…

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Administrator Liz Ryan talked about sentencing reform during an event hosted by the Sentencing Project.

UNICEF Mental Health Adviser Zeinab Hijazi talked about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global youth mental health crisis. Afterward, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy address…