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The forgotten success story of America’s teenagers

It’s been feeling very 1995 lately. Oasis, whose last good song came out back when Macs were still see-through, was the second-biggest tour on the planet last year. Gen Z is snapping up the flip phones and digital cameras their parents had traded in for smartphones, and Y2K-era fashion is flooding the mall, in case you were wondering where all the rhinestones came from. Pop star Olivia Rodrigo just released a hit album heavily influenced by alternative rock recorded a decade before she was born. Key takeaways The teen birth rate hit another record low in 2025 — down 81 percen...