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Expanding Our Circle of Care (opens the original)
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Content note: This piece includes brief discussion of death and the aftermath of an airstrike.Almost every night lately, after the sun goes down, my two-year-old daughter runs to our back patio windows to look for the moon. She presses her plump little fingers against the glass and searches the sky, moving from window to window looking for it.“Moon gone!” she cries sorrowfully, with the concern of a child who truly believes the moon has disappeared entirely.“Don’t worry, sweetie, the moon is sti
The Midterms Can’t Repair Everything MAGA Broke (opens the original)
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Given that my last two pieces have been very research-heavy, and that I’m burning the candle at both ends these days (and I am, frankly, tired), today I want to take a break from talking about data and instead talk about something that’s been weighing on my heart.If you’ve followed Dysregulation Nation for a while, you may remember that in 2025, I wrote an eight-part series on political grief. That series wa
Liberal Girls Are Carrying the Weight of the World. And It May Be Crushing Them. (opens the original)
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Author’s Note: In my previous piece, I explained what I believe is driving the teen mental health crisis and argued against Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s “reverse-CBT hypothesis” (i.e., the claim that liberal teens’ distress stems from progressive institutions and ideology training them toward catastrophizing, fragility, and a sense of helplessness). Since publishing that piece, I’ve continued analyzing the Monitoring the Future survey data, an
Liberal Teens Are a Stark Warning for America (opens the original)
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Author’s note: Earlier this month, I had an epiphany about the youth mental health crisis and how it connects to the distress so many of us are feeling given the state of the world. That epiphany sent me down a deep dive into analyzing the publicly available Monitoring the Future survey data on teen depression. What came out of that and the analyses that followed is the piece below: it counters the most prominent explanations for the youth mental health crisis, lays out my own nervous-system-bas
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