From group chats to late-night messages, texting shapes how teens connect with the world. Steve Joordens takes a closer look at the psychological effects of texting on teenagers, offering a thoughtful, research-informed perspective.

A new year is the perfect moment to reset more than our routines. Loneliness isn’t the crisis, our misunderstanding of it is. When we treat connection as a foundation, not an afterthought, we move from reacting to loneliness to preventing it.