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The teenage decade

Reflections on 2010-2019: Where we started, how we grew and where we might go next after 10 years of tumult, change and (some) progress.Reflections on 2010-2019: Where we started, how we grew and where we might go next after 10 years of tumult, change and (some) progress.

  • The last decade has been a collective national adolescence, for better and for worse.
    THE DECADE, IN THINK

    THINKing about 2010-2019: Where we started, how we grew and where we might go

  • Illustration of Black Lives Matters activists raising fists inside the crown of the Statue of the Liberty.
    The Decade in Black Lives

    A decade of Black Lives Matter gives us a new understanding of Black liberation

  • Image: We can all remember every important moment in an entire year in just a few minutes by scrolling through our camera roll.
    The Decade in Your Hands

    How our phones became our whole lives in just 10 years

  • Illustration of young woman locked outside a college campus.
    THE DECADE IN EDUCATION

    College is at a crossroad. Will it increase social mobility — or class inequality?

  • Image: Tarana Burke, the founder of #MeToo, reflects on the changing landscape of rape culture.
    The Decade in the Fight

    The success of the 'me too' movement took work, not just a hashtag

  • Image:  Queerness has seen victories in pop culture with faces like Jonathan Van Ness and RuPaul but politically it's been a much tougher fight than people realize.
    THE DECADE IN QUEERNESS

    Queerness burst into the mainstream in the 2010s — but stalled politically

  • Image: To control their own fates, women first needed to keep from getting pregnant; then they needed to be able to preserve their fertility. The IVF advances of the last decade have done that, given women more agency in work, home and love.
    The Decade in Reproduction

    Egg freezing and IVF are to the 2010s what birth control was to the 1960s

  • Illustration of people outside movie theatre watching movies on their phones as Wonder Woman sells out the theatre.
    THE DECADE ON THE BIG SCREEN

    How Netflix, Star Wars and Marvel redefined Hollywood

  • Illustration of graves with drug paraphernalia engraved on them.
    The DECADE IN DRUGS

    Drugs finally won the War on Drugs in the 2010s

  • Image: Pop idols reached new levels of dominance in the 2010s, as women like Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Lizzo, Rihanna and Lady Gaga achieving legendary status through transformations in their image and music.
    The Decade in Divas

    These women of pop music defied the expectations of a decade and an industry

  • Illustration of lawmaker watching protests outside a window as smoke stacks billow in the distance.
    The Decade in Climate

    Climate change became a burning issue in the 2010s, but also an opportunity

  • Image: Wellness has wooed and thrived over the past ten years. With faces like Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and even Tom Brady, they've helped turn wellness into a huge business often at odds with conventional healthcare.
    THE DECADE IN 'WELLNESS'

    Good-looking people with terrible ideas: The decade in celebrity health hogwash

  • THE DECADE IN FAITH

    The decade that doomed White Christian America

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