Tag: youth culture

• How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth

  February 9, 2025

  Why did Swedish nicotine pouches become a generation’s go-to fix for blasting through long work days and longer nights out? https://www.gq.com/story/how-zyn-conquered-the-american-mouth more ›

• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

  April 1, 2024

  Two things need to be said after reading The Anxious Generation. First, this book is going to sell a lot of copies, because Jonathan Haidt is telling a scary story… more ›

• Youth in Africa: How Africa’s post conflict regimes handle the African Millennias (Norglobal)

  January 8, 2024

  The population in sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing and the youngest in the world, yet the politicians ruling them are typically among the oldest. This observation is the starting… more ›

• ‘We want to build a life’: Europe’s paperless young people speak out

  December 5, 2020

  A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights.  Europe has its own dreamer generation, but unlike the US Dreamers,… more ›

• ‘Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation gap in music

  April 17, 2019

  It is a disconcerting experience to look at your tweenage daughter’s Spotify playlists and realise that you have never heard of any of the artists. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/29/be-urself-meet-the-teens-creating-a-generation-gap-in-music more ›

• How the Rio slums helped inspire a start-up…

  March 28, 2015

  How the Rio slums helped inspire a start-up revolution The Agency, an initiative imported from Brazil’s favelas allows young people from deprived inner-city areas develop business ideas that benefit their… more ›