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Ban the Phones and Mean It

A TikTok algorithm serves a teenager body image content every 39 seconds during the school day. Fifty-eight percent of countries have already decided that is unacceptable. The rest are just stalling.

By Lena Paige · 3 min read

Finance

PSLF Is Worth It for Exactly the Right Person, and Probably Not You

PSLF has forgiven $90.6 billion for 1.2 million borrowers, and the headline number is real. So is the 88,000-application backlog. The gap between those 2 facts is where career plans go to die.

By Marcus Cole · 3 min read

Culture

Confiscating Phones Won't Build a Classroom Worth Sitting In

Thirty-five states have now passed cellphone bans in schools, and legislators are treating confiscation like a philosophy. But the schools that actually hold a teenager's attention have never needed a pouch or a policy.

By Jules Fontaine · 3 min read