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Topic: young adults

Amrit Kaur and Reneé Rapp in "The Sex Lives of College Girls" (Photo courtesy of HBO Max)

"Sex Lives" stars talk being "powerful"

Joy Saha
FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, juvenile detention inmates at New York's Rikers Island jail walk in a single file to the chapel. Some activists say shutting down Rikers is the only solution for a cycle of abuses that includes violence by guards and gang members, mistreatment of the mentally ill and juveniles, and unjustly long detention for minor offenders. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) (AP)

Juvenile justice in the U.S.

Tammy Chang, Omar Ilyas, Vic Wiener - The Conversation

American policies affect mental health

Lynn Stuart Parramore - Alternet
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast))

Tide Pod challenge fails at blame game

Harry T Dyer - The Conversation
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The parental health insurance cliff

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
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How ACA changed millennials' love lives

Joelle Abramowitz - The Conversation
This Monday, March 30, 2015 photo shows a Hisense Chrome laptop in San Francisco. (AP)

10 websites every school should bookmark

Christine Elgersma - Common Sense Media
FILE - In a June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday, March 31, 2017, that he's developing a plan to shut down the massive jail within 10 years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) (AP)

Trouble on Rikers Island

Joaquin Sapien - ProPublica
(AP/Beth J. Harpaz)

Beth Younger - The Conversation
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Losing your virginity: Not awkward now

Jenny Kutner
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Jenny Kutner
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