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There are good reasons to think that the harms associated with smartphones operate less through social media itself than through the activities it displaces — like sleep. (Suzi Media Production/Getty) AdolescenceBullyingJonathan HaidtMental healthSmartphones The debate about whether social media is bad for mental health has reached new levels of intensity. Meta and Google have been found liable in a US legal claim that their social media platforms were designed to be addictive.

cousin marriageCulture WarsGeneticsMulticulturalismSocietyUK In 1870, Charles Darwin, tormented by the idea that his marriage to his first cousin might be the cause of his children’s ill health, asked his friend Sir John Lubbock to take the matter to Parliament. Lubbock was to propose that the national census include a question on cousin marriage.

ChildrendiverseFeminismfertility crisisMotherhoodpronatalismSociety The question of whether or not to have children has never seemed so political. Sensing a fertility crisis on the horizon, the populist Right are embracing pro-natalism. Elon Musk, father of 11, warns of the mass extinction of entire nations, while over in Europe, Hungary‚Äôs Viktor Orb√°n calls for ‚Äúprocreation not immigration‚ÄĚ, a sentiment echoed by Giorgia Meloni.