Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how businesses taking a 'Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence' approach to hiring are outperforming those taking a mandatory 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' ...

The changes, after Meta’s legal losses in two child safety cases, are aimed at limiting harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco ...

The mayhem over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago erupted without warning. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. On Sunday, hundreds of ...

Getting a job to make some extra cash is as much a part of the summer teen experience as cooling off in an air conditioned movie theater. But this year’s search for work has become a bit of a ...

Restless and armed with social media, unauthorized groups of teenagers across the country have been gathering for so-called teen takeovers. These loud parties can devolve into violence, exasperating ...

And to get through everything from school exams to softball games, they need nutritious food. But research suggests Australian teens aren’t getting the nutrients they need, because their diets often ...

The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...

A large teen gathering in downtown Chicago descended into chaos Wednesday night—prompting a curfew enforcement order and intensifying the debate over how to stop repeat takeovers in the Loop. The ...

Eight hours of sleep used to be the norm, and all-nighters with only a few hours of rest were rare among teenagers. In recent years, however, there has been an alarming decline in sleep duration. It ...

Why are adolescents so sensitive to their peers' behavior? And is this sensitivity necessarily negative, as the term peer pressure often implies? In his Ph.D. dissertation, UvA behavioral scientist ...

As the mother of a newly minted 13-year-old, I know firsthand that teens have specific and valid skincare concerns, despite all the Sephora-shaming that’s been heaped on them. After all, puberty is ...

Teenagers spend more than an hour on their smartphones during a typical school day, mostly on social media apps, concludes a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical ...