AI detection tools promised a clean solution to the internet's growing slop problem. What they've delivered is a coin flip. Academic studies and independent tests have repeatedly shown that the most ...

Where are the “Sephora tweens” now? More than two years after that term catapulted through the cultural lexicon as Gen Alpha’s first tweens entered the beauty industry — often in droves, with a ...

The marketing team faced a decision of a purple kind. Claire’s, the accessories store and mall staple that has pierced the ears of more than 131 million customers over the decades, had long built its ...

In every decade, America rediscovers that girlhood is in crisis. In the 1990s, it was the heroin chic and waifish models who graced not only the pages of Vogue, but YM and Seventeen, setting a ...

For the first time in history, social media companies have been found guilty of harming the mental health of a young person. Last week, jurors in Los Angeles concluded that both Meta and Google ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that ...

As your child approaches their teenage years, they’ll want more independence, their emotions will run higher and you might see more disagreements in your household. This is normal. Adolescence – which ...

To coincide with the release of Samsung's new Galaxy S26 family of phones, Google is pushing out a small but meaningful update to Circle to Search. As a reminder, Circle to Search allows you to carry ...

Six months ago, we gave a name to the one-block stretch of Broadway where matcha-sipping, Jansport-wearing middle- and high-school girls swarm to shop and socialize: “Tween Row.” Now that it’s ...

Tween girls contain multitudes, trying on the interests of young adults while still relishing the cute, shiny, and glittery toys of their childhood. Their increasingly sophisticated brains are ...

While the term might make you roll your eyes, “tween” is the perfect word for anyone eight to 12 years old. It’s a combination of the words “teen” and “between,” a reflection of how many kids feel ...