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Anna North

Anna North

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Anna North

    The “You’re doing it wrong”-ification of TikTok
    Culture

    Everything is a “don’t” in the new era of influencing.

    By Anna North
    America’s school lunch crisis
    Money

    A federal program allowed schools to provide free lunch to all children. Why did it have to end?

    By Anna North
    Labor
    The five-day workweek is deadThe five-day workweek is dead
    Labor

    The calls for something better are just getting louder.

    By Anna North
    A retro hobby for the end times
    Culture

    The delicious, divisive, and surprisingly political world of contemporary home canning.

    By Anna North
    Rihanna is the pregnancy role model America needs right now
    Culture

    Fans’ demands that she get back to work show us how our narratives around motherhood and work have to change.

    By Anna North
    One Good Thing
    One Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses failOne Good Thing: A Danish drama lets its girlbosses fail
    One Good Thing

    The latest season of Borgen is a political thriller for the Great Resignation.

    By Anna North
    Money
    The anti-abortion “social safety net”The anti-abortion “social safety net”
    Money

    The right wants “crisis pregnancy centers” to replace abortion clinics.

    By Anna North
    It’s a terrifying time to have kids in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.
    Money

    How do you raise kids in a country that seems to hate them?

    By Anna North
    The kids who have never known life without Covid-19
    Money

    What the pandemic took from America’s youngest children — and how to help them get it back.

    By Anna North
    The anti-abortion movement is about to win. Even it isn’t ready for what comes next.
    Features

    Tracking down the sources of abortion pills, a brewing internal schism over arresting pregnant people — welcome to the post-Roe future.

    By Anna North