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Anna North

www.vox.com
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articles (90 days)

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Want to fight fascism? Join a knitting circle.
“Back in 2017, I made a ton of pussyhats,” Catherine Paul told me. “I just knitted pink hats like there was no tomorrow.” At the time, Paul appreciated “the way that craft could be part of a demons...
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How a capybara took over the Scholastic Book Fair
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. The Scholastic Book Fair is a big deal at my older kid’s school. A couple ...
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The plague of parental sleep deprivation
As a baby, my second child was a terrible sleeper.  First he had day-night confusion, a common but exhausting condition in which the baby sleeps during daylight hours and is alert and hungry all ni...
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Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong?
It’s not necessarily the guys you might expect, Apollo Knapp told me. These are 6-foot-tall high-school athletes, guys who are social and popular. “They’re the type of people that are friends with ...
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The ICE pandemic
Entire families sheltering in their homes, afraid to go outside. Children getting their lessons on iPad screens. Pregnant women skipping doctors’ appointments and considering home birth. A pervasiv...
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Talk to your kids about ICE
We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. Many Americans were shocked and disturbed by the image of 5-year-old Liam R...
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Why your kid is yelling “chicken banana”
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My husband was picking up our older kid from school a few weeks back when ...
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Generation Dad
“I definitely want to have kids,” Branden Estrada, an 18-year-old college freshman, told me. “I had such a good family life that I’ve always thought about what it’s going to be like for me to have ...
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Why universal child care is closer than ever in New York
It looked like one of Zohran Mamdani’s most ambitious promises. Between a $6 billion price tag and the complexity of hiring and training potentially thousands of educators, the mayoral candidate’s ...
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