Why Young Americans Cannot Afford to Become Adults

A record 25.2 million Americans under 35 lived with their parents last year. Seven in ten of them have a job. The uncomfortable truth this generation keeps being told to solve with more effort is, by the numbers, not a character problem at all. It is a housing shortage, a broken entry-level job market, and…

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ByAnthony Waters

Culture Politics

The College Free-Speech Report Card for Parents

American families now spend more on four years of college than on almost anything else they will ever buy, a house and a wedding included. Almost none of them ever look up the one report that measures whether their child will actually be free to speak, question, and hold onto their convictions once they get…

Why Gen Z Is Nostalgic for a Childhood It Barely Had

Walk into a wedding reception this year and you're as likely to find a basket of disposable cameras on the table as a photo booth. Ask a twenty-two-year-old about her new phone and she may proudly tell you it can only call and text. There is a word for what's happening here, and it isn't…

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ByOzzie Nodal

America First Culture

Why Americans Trust Personalities More Than Journalists

Americans' trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly just hit a new all-time low of 28 percent. Meanwhile, a growing share of the country, more than a third of adults under 30, now regularly gets its news from independent podcasters, YouTubers, and online commentators instead. The obvious question…

Should Every Child Have a Right to a Phone-Free Childhood?

Should Every Child Have a Right to a Phone-Free Childhood? Two years ago, a psychology professor published a book arguing that smartphones had quietly stolen something essential from an entire generation of children. Today, thirty-five American states restrict phones in schools, an entire nation has banned social media for anyone under sixteen, and grassroots parent…

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ByRebecca Silverstein

Culture

Is Modesty Quietly Making a Comeback?

Rick Owens sent models down his runway wrapped floor to ceiling in fabric. A Utah farm wife with eight children became one of the most influential style icons on the internet. And a generation of young women exhausted by dating apps is quietly telling researchers they want something slower, more intentional, and less exposed. None…

Why Men Need Brotherhood, Not Just Content

A man can watch four hours of podcasts a day, absorb a dozen influencers' worth of advice on discipline, purpose, and masculinity, and still go to bed having spoken to no one who actually knows him. That is not a hypothetical. It is, increasingly, the ordinary condition of American manhood, and no algorithm, however well…

Why Having Children Now Feels Like a Luxury

Raising one child to adulthood in America now costs roughly $300,000. Childcare alone exceeds public college tuition in 28 states. And for the first time in the eleven-year history of the American Family Survey, finances have become the single most common reason Americans give for having fewer children than they actually want, cited twice as…

“Be Yourself” May Be the Worst Advice We Give Children

It sounds harmless enough to print on a mug. Be yourself. Follow your heart. You are perfect just the way you are. American parents have repeated some version of this phrase to their children for two generations now, and the research on what it actually produced is no longer ambiguous. It did not produce more…

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ByAlfonso Pereira

America First Culture Politics

The American Constitution – Take the Test

The Constitution Test Most Americans Would Fail Ten questions most Americans have a strong opinion about, and get wrong more often than not. Read each question, commit to an answer in your head before scrolling to the explanation, and count up your score at the end. No trick questions here, just the plain text of…

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ByBethany Taylor

Culture

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