Science, technology, and the environment
Physical and mental health
Criminal justice and policing
Teenage life online. A generation Zer's take on the social media age / Elena Quartararo, 17 (2018) ; The resurrection of Gilgamesh / Annie Cohen, 18 (2016) ; I'm a disabled teenagerm and social media is my lifeline / Asaka Park, 17 (2019) ; Through the cell phone camera lens / Lauren N., 16 (2016) ; #SelfieNation / Alyssa G. (2015) ; China needs freedom of information / Anonymous, 17 (2019) ; Spreading hatred is not the answer / Adrianna N. (2014) --
Teenage life offline. The wonders of wandering / Lucas Schroeder (2014) ; The life-changing magic of being messy / Isabel Hwang, 17 (2019) ; Tiger parenting: An angel in disguise / Michelle Twan, 17 (2019) ; To bae or not to bae / Paula L. (2015) ; Moving forwards: Stopping volunteer tourism / Jack Jian Kai Zhang, 16 (2019) --
School. In three ad half hours an alarm will go off / Konrad U. and Che E. (2015) The 4th R: Real life / Jason Schnall, 16(2018) ; Gym class villains / Nora berry, 17, and Chase Moriarty, 17 (2016) ; Accountablility-based testing is broken / Alan Peng, 17 (2018) ; Stopping bullets with locked doors and silence is already pulling the trigger / Daina Kalnina, 15 (2017) ; Why we should teach the truth about American History / Patrick Wang, 16 (2019) ; The unspokebn alphabet program / Stephanie Zhang, 14 (2017) ; Limiting science education: Limiting ourselves / James Chan, 17 (2019) ; Is it actually smart to sit still? / Hannah Amell, 15 (2018) ; Sex ed and abortion in America: Hypocrisy at its finest / Sylvia Hollander, 17 (2018) ; The Korean dream is a Korean tragedy / Jinha Kim, 15 (2019) ; I'm not surprised at the college admissions scandal, and you shouldn't be either / Maria Olifer, 18 (2019) ; Cutting it short / Eric Vogt (2014) ; Fairness in education: The upper-class monopoly on resources / Xiaolin Ding, 17 (2018) ; Inferior substitute teaching / Candic C. and Cheryl B. (2014) ; Why we stayed up until midnight finishing this editorial / Jean A., Sarah X., and Gjeorgjinio B. (2014) ; We need music in our schools / Gave M., 13 (2016) --
Civic life and politics. Dinner table politics / Bridget Smith, 15 (2018) ; Civil obedience / Anushka Agarwal, 16 (2018) ; Generation code red / Grace Scullion, 16 (2017) ; Lessons for 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates, from a sooon-to-be first-time voter / Nora Fellas, 17 (2019) ; In nothing we trust / Francesca Kelley, 18 (2017) ; China, it's time to meet your daughters / Lila McNamee, 14 (2019) ; That's not my problem: the bystander effect in today's society / Cassidy Remboski, 17 (2019) ; It's time for teens to vote / Miriam Gold, 14 (2016) ; The case for lowering the voting age / Kathryn Zaia, 14 (2018) ; Am I dangerous? / Paige D. (2015) ; America First / Safa Saleh, 17 (2017) ; When you are old enough to vote, will you? / Ilana G. (2015) ; I can't hear you: Echo Chambers in America / Kevin Tang, 16 (2018) ; Discourse is democracy: Allowing uncensored speech on college campuses / Abigail Hogan, 17 (2017) ; Journalistic objectivity was yesterday's saving grace / Jeffrey W. (2015) ; The real solution / Kevin Morales, 17 (2016) --
Gender and Sexuality. The red stain on society / Holly Keaton, 16 (2016) ; Why I, a heterosexual teenage boy, want to see more men in speedos / Noah Spencer, 17 (2014) ; Redefining ladylike / Zoie Taylore (2015) ; The future of the #MeToo movement through the eyes of a 17-year-old boy / Charles Gstalder, 17 (2018) ; How "it's okay to be gay" has become a lie in the Trump era / Lane Schnell, 16 (2019) ; You don't need to glitter things pink to get me into STEM / Abby W. (2014) ; The question up for debate: is feminism really for everyone? / Nico Mayer, 14 (2016) ; Under black cloaks / Bincheng Mao, 16 (2018) ; Why we must act on #MeToo / Bhargavi Garimella, 17 (2018) ; Egghead son vs. Airhead daughter / Rachel S. and Nancy B. (2015) --
Race and Religion. The Asian Misnomer: What the affirmative action debate misses / Matteo Wong, 16 (2017) ; Muddying a sacred cloth: When the Hijav is worn in solidarity / Zahra Nasser, 17 (2016) ; Indigenous: Unheard, but loud / Marco Alvarez, 16 (2016) ; Good before God (or any of His religions) / Jason Barr, 16 (2016) ; Intelligence over diversity / Ashley K. (2014) ; The missing Anthropological Exhibit at the Museum of Natural History / Alec Farber, 16 (2017) --
Science, Technology, and the Environment. Nothing gets between me and my sushi....except plastic, maybe / Sophia Lee, 15 (2019) ; Climate Literacy: A critical step toward climate stablility / Ella Shriner, 14 and Hanna Witscher, 15 (2017) ; Will the future of American manufacturing be printed? / Ben Masters, 15 (2016) ; Driving: It's going out of style / Emma Chiu, 15 (2018) ; A prodigy for your progeny / Kaiser Ke, 16 (2018) ; Paper or Plastic? How about a paper ON plastic! / Melody Markert, 17 (2017 ) --
Physical and Mental health. U.S. citizens are dying and we can save them / Eva Ferguson, 17 (2019) ; Trivializing mental illness makes me depressed / Lola Byers-Ogle, 15 (2018) ; How ableism lives on / Hope Kurth, 17 (2016) ; Vice for vice / Eugene Hong, 15 (2018) ; Self-care alone will not fix the system / Walter Li, 18 (2019) ; A psychedelic cure? / Reagan Briere, 16 (2017) ; We are the generation of self-deprecation / Faith Christiansen, 17 (2019) ; The anguish of the rich / Yiqi Wang, 17 (2017) --
Arts, Culture, and Food. Shakespeare: Friend, not foe / Angela Chen, 15 (2019 ; The trouble with teen movies / Olivia Newman, 18 (2018) ; A change in the menu / Grace Silva, 15 (2019) ; Let children of color be characters, too / Sandra chen, 16 (2018) ; A massacre of art / Josh C. (2015) ; There is no happily ever without once upon a time / Bridget O'Leary, 17 (2017) ; The integrity of pinnaple pizza / Sarah Celestin, 16 (2019) ; To read or not to read? / Anna Brooke May (2015) --
Sports and Gaming. Confronting toxicity in gaming: Going beyond 'Mute' / Tony Xiao, 15 (2019) ; Why I, a high school football player, want to see tackle football taken away / Keegan Lindell, 17 (2019) ; Concussion Hysteria / Aiden Donnelly, 17 (2016) ; This is not a game / Ben C., 16 (2016) ; The future disintegration of American Democracy through athletics / Julianne Yu, 16 (2017) ; It's time for America to start feeling the love for Ulitmate Frisbee / Alex Kucich, 17 (2016) ; The N.H.L. should do away with fighting / Adrian P. (2015) ; "Chemical Horses" and the Racing industry / Erica Kirchhof (2015) --
Criminal Justice and Policing. Breaking the Blue Wall of silence: Changing the social narrative about policing in America / Narain Dubey, 17 (2019) ; Rape: The only crime where victims have to explain themselves / Corrine Ahearn, 17 (2019) ; Inmates aren't animales / Marissa Brannick (2014) ; Life sentences for children should go away...for life / Jessie Dietz, 17 (2019) ; It's time to legalize the world's oldest profession / Ashlyn DesCarpentrie, 17 (2018) --
Consumer Culture. Shop till you (and humanity) drop / Emily Goldman, 16 (2016) ; One-for one business models: do the benefits of philanthropic companies like Toms outweigh the harms? / Lisa S., 15 (2016) ; Why mainstreaming CBD in consumer products is detrimental to our society / Emily Milgrim, 15 (2019) ; "Cultural Appropration" is critical to human progress / Maggie Strauss, 17 (2019).
