Feature Posts

One story for me, another for thee
Caleb Loh | April 25, 2025
As Ivy League undergraduate college offices release their regular admissions decisions for the class of 2029, we can expect yet another season of frantic student reaction videos, a dose of raucous enthusiasm and an

Gen Z is falling short of who we were destined to become
Livia LaMarca | April 18, 2025
I think for most members of my generation — the illustrious Gen Z crowd — it is a relatively common phenomenon to have a parent or other older adult turn and look at you,

American kids are overmedicated
Jack Verrill | April 11, 2025
America is a lot of things: a global leader in innovation, an arms dealer, a centuries-old democracy, an abuser of human rights (sometimes). We are also a pharmacy, and if you are a toddler showing mild signs

We are losing ourselves to the internet
Livia LaMarca | April 4, 2025
[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s young people and the adults who work with them. This one is a “Director’s Choice” that

Princeton’s role in combating the drug crisis must start on campus
Lizbeth Reyes | March 28, 2025
Drug addiction is a public health crisis in the United States. Total overdose deaths have increased in the United States over the last two decades across all demographic groups, with about 17 percent of Americans battling a substance use disorder

Our apps can’t dictate our politics
Namrata Pradeep | March 21, 2025
The rise of technology is affecting our relationships with the people in charge. At the moment, there is arguably no form of media more important than social media — for many cultural, social, and

Growing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: A Conversation with Joyce Cooper-Kahn
Elaine Griffin | March 14, 2025
Introduction: Why Executive Functioning Matters When I interviewed Joyce Cooper-Kahn about the new edition of her book, “Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning,” she modestly credited many of her

Education and the brain: On grace and development
Brent Kaneft | March 7, 2025
For Coach Tommy Jones January is cold for baseball, but at this preseason practice, the team sitting, backs against the left field fence in front of our home dugout, I was as warm and

The calculus of Blackness
Marie Dillard | February 28, 2025
Who has jurisdiction over Blackness? Who gets to determine who is and isn’t Black, and why? And what is it based on? Is it phenotype — complexion, hair texture, lips, eyes, your nose? Is




