Anna North

Oct 3, 2024 | vox.com | Anna North

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Sahasra Yellepeddi, 16, has lived in Allen, Texas, all her life. Last year, a gunman killed eight people and wounded at least seven in an outlet mall there, one “I’ve been going to since I was born,” she told me. “I realized that these issues that we’re hearing about in the news, gun violence being one, are not abstract, but they’re affecting everyday Americans,” Sahasra said.

Sep 27, 2024 | vox.com | Anna North

Last year, Trisha’s morning commute was simple. She’d walk a few steps outside her door, wait with the other kids from her neighborhood, and then hop on the yellow bus that took them all to school. Trisha, now 11 and in sixth grade, enjoyed the ride to her school outside Houston, Texas. “I really liked how you could talk to your friends, and it was very easy getting to the bus because it was so close by,” she told me.

Sep 25, 2024 | vox.com | Lavanya Ramanathan |Anna North

It’s been more than a week since the arrest of music mogul and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs on a litany of federal charges including sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, but the questions surrounding the allegations have only grown in recent days. Which of Combs’s many celebrity friends heard about the alleged “freak-offs”? What, if anything, did his former romantic partners, including Jennifer Lopez, know? If there are tapes, what’s on them? Why do people keep talking about Justin Bieber?

Sep 12, 2024 | vox.com | Anna North

Do kids still play? Specifically, do they play in active, imaginative, kid-directed ways, off screens and in the real world? It’s a question I’ve gotten in many forms since I started this newsletter, from the reader who asked if kids are still learning “Ring Around the Rosie” to the dad who wondered if it’s possible to give kids independence in a sometimes unsafe world. Such concerns aren’t unwarranted.

Sep 5, 2024 | vox.com | Anna North

“Chicken nuggets are a food I have never fed my kids,” TikTok creator @thehealthywife says as she carefully places raw chicken breasts into a food processor, in a video from this spring that got more than 50,000 likes. “That’s because I prioritize their health over convenience.”That means making nugget-like chicken snacks from scratch, no matter how messy or time-consuming it may be.