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Anna North

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The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it

The largest herds of caribou in the world make their homes here. Polar bears give birth to cubs in dens dug into this soil, some of them more than 200...

17.10.2025 20

Vox

Anna North

The retro technology connecting kids to their friends 

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago I talked...

02.10.2025 7

Vox

Anna North

What do we lose when teens don’t babysit?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A quick programming...

11.09.2025 30

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Why kids are all posing like this in pictures

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My kids were posing for...

04.09.2025 20

Vox

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The real problem with kids’ diets today

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Are American kids...

30.08.2025 50

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Anna North

What kids don’t want you to know about Gen Alpha culture

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As long as youth...

21.08.2025 50

Vox

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What a 62-year-old maid explains about childhood

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m on vacation this...

14.08.2025 9

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The hidden forces ruining youth sports

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. When Aly was a little...

08.08.2025 4

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Anna North

Why are American kids getting sicker?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. One of the central...

31.07.2025 10

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Anna North

How millennials ruined summer camp

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Summer camp is supposed...

24.07.2025 30

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Anna North

What beauty companies are selling to kids

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Jessica DeFino transformed my relationship with skincare. After reading her newsletter, The Review of Beauty, I...

17.07.2025 60

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Can kids still have lazy summers?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As a millennial, I had...

03.07.2025 6

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Anna North

The hidden pressure messing with teen birthdays

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Birthdays are supposed...

26.06.2025 9

Vox

Anna North

The MAGA dream family would cost all of us

The MAGA movement has a particular vision of the ideal American family. For starters, there are lots of kids. There’s a dad who works a...

26.06.2025 20

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Anna North

The moms trying to delay their daughters’ periods

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Getting your first...

12.06.2025 3

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Anna North

Do kids need a best friend?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Divya met her best...

05.06.2025 6

Vox

Anna North

This is the future kids want

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Earlier this year, I...

29.05.2025 3

Vox

Anna North

Should I teach my kids to use AI?

This week, for the respective editions of their newsletters, Kids Today and User Friendly, senior correspondents Anna North and Adam Clark Estes have...

22.05.2025 10

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“Dry texting,” explained

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago, a group...

15.05.2025 6

Vox

Anna North

Why grandparents are more important than ever

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. We often hear about the...

08.05.2025 20

Vox

Anna North

What if menopause were optional?

Will my generation be the last to go through menopause? Just a few years ago, that would’ve seemed like a bizarre question — I’ve always assumed...

05.05.2025 4

Vox

Anna North

Would a baby boom be good for kids?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. The pronatalists have...

01.05.2025 20

Vox

Anna North

Should kids get mental health days?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. It’s a stressful time...

24.04.2025 4

Vox

Anna North

Trump just made it harder to have a kid in America

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Having a baby is...

10.04.2025 30

Vox

Anna North

College has never felt more uncertain for America’s teens

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. In recent weeks,...

03.04.2025 7

Vox

Anna North

The problem of spring break

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Over the next few...

27.03.2025 10

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Anna North

Why do kids have imaginary friends?

An earlier version of this story appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A Vox reader...

23.03.2025 7

Vox

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What dismantling the Education Department means for kids with disabilities

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Over the last few...

13.03.2025 7

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Anna North

What childhood was like before vaccines

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. In the 19th century, it...

06.03.2025 40

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What Trump is trying to do to the Education Department, explained

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest targets in his second term has been the Education Department, a federal agency established in 1979 that...

04.03.2025 4

Vox

Anna North

When your mom is a tradwife

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. In one of Sara Doan’s...

27.02.2025 3

Vox

Anna North

The weird, joyful book that’s getting me through this winter

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m working on a...

20.02.2025 8

Vox

Anna North

The kid-friendly policy that’s quietly sweeping the country

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. It’s preschool...

13.02.2025 20

Vox

Anna North

How safe is donating your eggs?

Vox reader Quentin Ampersand asks: How safe is egg donation? Are there negative long-term impacts? How well are the health impacts understood? Egg...

07.02.2025 5

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Anna North

The Trump administration is already hurting trans kids

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Three weeks in, the...

06.02.2025 10

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Anna North

Trump’s immigration policy is already terrifying America’s kids

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Ever since Donald Trump...

30.01.2025 9

Vox

Anna North

Should I throw out my kid’s Froot Loops?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Last week, the Food and...

23.01.2025 7

Vox

Anna North

What happens to kids when their schools are destroyed?

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Kids lose so much when...

16.01.2025 10

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Anna North

When kids lose their schools to fire

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Kids lose so much when...

16.01.2025 20

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Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

Grown-ups around the world have spent the last year desperately trying to get kids to put down their phones. Worries about kids’ screen time are far...

09.01.2025 10

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Anna North

The eternal awkwardness of winter break

When I was about 7, Los Angeles public schools shifted to a “year-round” schedule. The effect, for my elementary school, was a shorter summer...

26.12.2024 10

Vox

Anna North

A bright spot in kids’ tech use

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I had been listening to...

19.12.2024 10

Vox

Anna North

Applying to college today is incredibly public and incredibly isolating

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Thousands of teenagers...

12.12.2024 7

Vox

Anna North

The most vulnerable target of post-election hate? America’s kids.

05.12.2024 81000

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America’s literacy crisis isn’t what you think

21.11.2024 5

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Why so many families are “drowning in toys”

18.11.2024 4

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“Your body, my choice”: The misogynist MAGA attack, explained

14.11.2024 81000

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Guiding kids — and ourselves — through the election aftermath

07.11.2024 10

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Anna North

Is Halloween less scary than it used to be?

31.10.2024 4

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The surprising source of kids’ stress lurking on parents’ phones

24.10.2024 4

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