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Jean Twenge has been working overtime. The psychologist has been uber-busy designing surveys and sifting through statistics to assess the effects of the pandemic on parents and children — with some surprising findings. Last June, she co-published research comparing mental health responses of adults after the onset of the pandemic to a similar survey of adults in 2018. The findings? More than 1 in 4 adults in April 2020 fit the criteria for serious mental distress, eight times as many as had in 2018. A large majority of those surveyed in 2020, 70.4 percent, reported experiencing moderate to...

Assisting the ‘iGen’ in finding well-being By Chao Nan-hsing 趙南星 A user on the National Development Council’s Public Policy Participation Network Platform wrote that the number of teenagers with depression has tripled over the past few years, and that up to 84 percent of Taiwanese teenagers have experienced depression, suggesting that junior-high schools should address mental health as part of their health and sports curriculum. The proposal drew the support of thousands of people. However, before a solution can be developed, the cause must be found. In her 2017 book, iGen: Why T...

Twelve, pp.256, $41.00 Tantor, pp.304, $12.00 (e-book) Somehow, American culture has got itself into a terrible mess of division and acrimony: elites against mainstream, progressives against conservatives, blue states against red states. They have always been an argumentative bunch, our American cousins, but the level of conflict has reached such heights that the whole system is starting to totter. How did this happen and what can be done about it? These two books, in their own ways, supply some answers. Crenshaw, for one, cuts a distinctive figure figure as a former Navy SEAL officer who, af...

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Trust In Traditional Media Is At An All-Time Low. What Happened? Reporter and bestselling author, Matt Taibbi, discusses Americans’ distrust of the media and how the media itself has played a role. Also, biomedical policy and business experts explore President Biden’s plans for COVID and the economy. January 22, 2021, 5:46 PM FILE – This June 22, 2019 file photo shows the exterior of the New York Times building in New York. The New York Times says it was wrong to trust the story of a Canadian man whose claims of witnessing and participating in atrocities as a member of the Islamic State...