Young People

The St. Louis County native has nearly 50,000 people subscribed to his “Wake Up to Politics” newsletter on Substack.

Mandated media literacy education is absent from Missouri schools. Here’s how students think it should be taught.

Recent John Burroughs graduate and Lake St. Louis resident Shangri-La Hou discusses themes of nature, spirituality, identity and place in her work, and poetry as a tool for self-expression and raising ecological awareness.

Lyric Green started playing the bass at 12 years old. A year later, the rising high school freshman is spending part of her summer at the Juilliard School in New York.

Journalist Masuma Ahuja discusses her book "Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices" on "St. Louis on the Air." The book includes excerpts from 30 girls' diaries, including a teenager in the suburbs of St. Louis.

A study released this week by the National Institutes of Health indicates that nearly one-third of Americans between the ages of 10 and 12 “screened…