Gen Z is having a moment — not in the “It Girl” kind of way, deserving the paparazzi spotlight because it has particular talents, looks, or other … assets. Quite the opposite. Gen Z, the generational group born from 1997 to the early aughts of the 21st century, is emotionally marred by its technological umbilical cord, ADHD, and COVID-induced psychological distress.
This Gen Z moment is more akin to a mid-midlife crisis. And what better cure than a longing for the halcyon days of yore: the 1990s. If your generation is defined by a lack of rebelliousness, social isolation, and emotional cope, then why not live out your fantasies indulging in the wildly innocent and spontaneous authenticity of a world unsoiled by social media, doomscrolling, and the precarious teetering on the edge of ecological, political, and economic collapse that your Boomer grandparents have heaped on your conscience? Of course, relief would only be found in longing for the days of mix tapes, Must See TV, and meeting friends at the mall arcade (IRL!).
Gen Z’s ’90s infatuation is a reminder of what we had and what we lost. A culture grounded in an analogue world, a freedom untethered from 24/7 hyperattentive neuroses based on social media antisocialism, and a freewheeling, spontaneous in-the-moment reality where politics and culture and entertainment still had defined boundaries, and America was, for the most part, an outward-looking, optimistic culture obsessed with collective cohesion, not division.
We’ve seen this coming. It makes perfect sense that kids who never owned a physical thing, let alone burn CDs, copy movies from television onto VHS, or take a date out to the local Blockbuster Video (Netflix and chill has nothing on the suggestive power of “Basic Instinct” or “Wild Things”), would now have extensive vinyl record collections, buy Criterion Collection film DVDs or be snapping up back issues of magazines on eBay.
“Friends,” “Seinfeld,” “Sex and the City,” the Vogue aesthetic, and NYC glamour have newfound cachet. Hell, with the rise of GLP-1 inhibitors, heroin-skinny chic is even back with a fervor (just ask Demi Moore). So it’s only natural that the &#8220;It Couple of America’s&#8221; style capital — John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy — have found a resurrection among this generation. From Bessette’s <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/carolyn-bessette-kennedy-cbk-headband-co-bigelow-love-story.html?_gl=1*93lvyj*_gcl_au*MTA5MjQ1MTU4Mi4xNzcwMjQxMzU2*FPAU*MjA4ODkwMzQ1MC4xNzY3OTA3NTEz*_ga*NzM5MzQ4NjMxLjE3Njc5MDc1MTM.*_ga_DNE38RK1HX*czE3NzM1MzU2OTkkbzIwJGcxJHQxNzczNTM1NzIxJGozOCRsMCRoODQxNTkwNjQ2*_fplc*Tmd1VUUzV3ZCdlZCJTJCU2hCNUVBOVhsOUpxMFMlMkJjc3ZaZThjd1E0ZnN0ZyUyRkNUd2lIRE9sJTJCR01LM2YlMkJxJTJGU1R3NEIyT2lhd2RlekElMkZxNGVPQWpIWkRRWWJaZXAlMkJDQnNDRUFjNUd4dE9tTkRDS0xmSjFvJTJGUGwlMkJQbWdXQW1JOVElM0QlM0Q.">killer headbands</a> and Calvin Klein fashion to a Washington Square Park JFK, Jr. <a href="https://instinctmagazine.com/jfk-jr-lookalikes-nyc/">lookalike contest</a>, this <a href="https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/love-story">Love Story</a> is the perfect form of escapism. The tabloid favs predated Bennifer and Brangelina and offered relationship drama that Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt only dreamed of.
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But if there are takeaways from Gen Z’s emotional support decade, it’s that we can’t go back in time, but we can try to recapture the idealism of our past, even if it’s a pieced-together, imperfect idealism, akin to what JFK, Jr. embodied in his own life with the launch of his George magazine in 1995. It was a hope found in a nation of possibilities rather than one of victims or grievances, and “not just politics as usual,” as its tagline pronounced.
George had it all: celebrity cachet to chaperone the political party, think “<a href="https://whca.press/news/annual-dinner/">Nerd Prom</a>” well before Ana Marie Cox stole the moniker from San Diego’s Comic-Con, and with a self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek cheekiness completely absent in today’s self-important political spheres. This was vibes before vibe-maxxing was a thing; TMZ a decade before its celeb-skewering snark; politics merging with entertainment before The Donald came down the golden escalator.
In a way, JFK, Jr. and George were prophetic but also too good to appreciate in their own time, and too romantic and authentic for today. It would be unthinkable now for the son of President John F. Kennedy to put a too-cute Drew Barrymore evoking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ7E1fzQzd8">Marilyn Monroe</a>, the sexy starlet who famously crooned for and canoodled with the 35th president, in that dress on the cover of his magazine. It was a figurative nesting doll of iconographic Americana. Kennedy explained the choice on an “Oprah Winfrey Show” <a href="https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/john-f-kennedy-jrs-life-in-the-spotlight">appearance</a> in 1996: “Bill Clinton turned 50 two days after we went on sale, as an editor, that is a colossal opportunity that you can’t let pass.” Gen Z would lap that up faster than a collagen smoothie.
But in the 1990s, that was the atmosphere proving Andrew Breitbart’s leitmotif that politics is downstream from culture. But George did it in a noncombative, approachable way. Supermodels, sports stars, screen legends, and gossip mingled with serious interviews with George Wallace and profiles of politicos such as Newt Gingrich, poking holes in the pious and self-important world of politics. It certainly defies today’s carefully curated, protect-the-brand-at-all-costs ethos.
Why so serious, Gen Z? Laugh a little! JFK, Jr. and George showed that nothing should be so precious, even your own legendary family. It’s doubtful that Hunter Biden would allow his father’s name, image, or likeness to appear anywhere near an ad — or mock ad — for dementia care, or even Baskin-Robbins. 
Gen Z missed out on real comedy and genuine, innocent fun. The 1990s were a time when late-night talk shows were actually funny and reflected collective cultural entertainment, not just vehicles for applause harvesting and woke scolds. Hollywood was still interested in making movies people wanted to see, and New York City was the center of the universe and a destination for dreamers and tourists; it was possible to meet your future spouse at a bar (when young people went to bars), ride the subway without fear of being pushed onto the tracks, or exist as a <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/28/us-news/stranger-pummels-rabbi-after-sneering-f-k-jews-in-hate-fueled-nyc-attack/">Jew</a>. Instead, NYC has a mayor who seems hellbent on rolling the city back to the gritty urban decay of the 1970s — think “Taxi Driver” and “Mean Streets” — albeit with a touch of antisemitism and domestic terror attacks. Charming! Those films should be cautionary tales, not #Goals.
It’s no wonder Gen Z is looking back. When you’re promised the world and instead you get an IOU, you look for happier times where you can find them — even in the pages of long-lost magazines and People’s <a href="https://people.com/john-f-kennedy-jr-sexiest-man-alive-1988-people-magazine-cover-11916170">Sexiest Man Alive</a> when he was…still alive.
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Jenna Stocker is editor and publisher of American Experiment’s quarterly magazine. A former Marine Corps officer, Stocker also contributes to The Federalist and National Review.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Four staffers who recorded themselves confronting the head of Human Resources at Condé Nast over recent layoffs at Teen Vogue have been fired.
The clips were filmed on Wednesday outside HR exec Stan Duncan’s office at One World Trade Center in New York City. In the awkward clip, a crowd of employees stand outside Duncan’s office and badger him about the layoffs, prompting him to repeatedly tell them to “go back to the workplace.”
Four of those employees were later fired for &#8220;extreme misconduct,” per <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/11/conde-nast-fires-staffers-teen-vogue-1236609695/">Deadline</a>.
Those individuals included Jasper Lo from the New Yorker, Jake Lahut from Wired, Alma Avalle from Bon Appétit, and Ben Dewey from Condé Nast Entertainment.
In the video, Duncan can be heard telling employees to refrain from “congregating” outside his office.
“What counts as congregating?” Lahut said. “What’s your definition of congregating?”
“We’d appreciate if you would go back to the workplace, to your workplace assignments,” Duncan responded.
“Is there a place that you’d be able to speak to us?” Avalle said to Duncan. “Do you think we’re not worth speaking to, Stan?”
“Those are your words, not mine,” Duncan said.
“But they might be your beliefs!” Avalle replied.
“They’re not my beliefs,” Duncan can be heard saying.
“Well, we have some quick questions. If you answered them, we’d be happy to go back to our desks,” Avalle tried again.
“Are you running away from us?” Avalle said incredulously as Duncan started leading the group away from his office.
“We’re concerned about our colleagues,” a person off-camera said.
 “We’d like you to answer questions,” Avalle said. “We’d love to move forward.”
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The most brutally awkward thing you&#8217;ll see today: Condé Nast staffers confront head of HR Stan Duncan over layoffs outside his 34th-floor office.
Four of the employees featured in this exclusive video from the confrontation were then fired for &#8220;extreme misconduct.&#8221;
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In a statement, Condé Nast said that “extreme misconduct is unacceptable in any professional setting. This includes aggressive, disruptive and threatening behavior of any kind.”
“We remain committed to working constructively with the union and all of our employees.”
The media giant also said they have filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the News Guild of New York “for their repeated and egregious disregard of our collective bargaining agreement.”
Meanwhile, the guild took the side of the fired employees, <a href="https://www.nyguild.org/post/statement-from-the-newsguild-of-new-york-and-conde-united-on-illegal-firing-of-four-union-leaders-who-demanded-answers-about-thi">writing</a>, “These terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in collective action.”
Avalle, a transgender-identifying employee who was one of those participating in the incident, wrote about it on X.
“I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I love my union. I’m devastated the company made this move. There are so few trans women in media at all — particularly ones who aren’t confined to ‘Queer Media’ — and I was incredibly proud of what my position at Bon Appétit meant at large,” the post <a href="https://x.com/GoodbyeAlma/status/1986505896068063351">said</a>.
“More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.”

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The far-Left outlet Teen Vogue will no longer operate as a standalone publication, with Condé Nast announcing plans to fold it into its flagship digital brand, Vogue.com.
The NewsGuild of New York and Condé Union both condemned the move, which <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-layoffs-politics-team-election-day-social-reactions/">reportedly</a> led to 75% of staffers being laid off, including the entire political editorial staff. They also complained about who in particular lost their jobs.
“Management plans to lay off six of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue’s Politics Editor — continuing the trend of layoffs at Condé disproportionately impacting marginalized employees,” a joint statement from the unions <a href="https://x.com/condeunion/status/1985488830019907664">said</a>.
“As of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff at Teen Vogue. Condé leadership owes us — and Teen Vogue’s readership — answers. We will get those answers. And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for,” the statement said.
The Vogue business team said in a letter that this “transition” is “part of a broader push to expand the Vogue ecosystem,” and claimed that the new, merged version of Teen Vogue, “will remain a distinct editorial property, with its own identity and mission,” per <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/11/teen-vogue-merger-vogue-conde-union-condemns-layoffs-1236606081/">Deadline</a>. 
“We are looking forward to this new chapter. In our increasingly fragmented media landscape, making all Vogue — Teen Vogue and Vogue Business — accessible in one place sets us up for growth,” Vogue’s head of editorial content, Chloe Malle, said in a statement.
Teen Vogue launched in 2003 as a sister publication to Vogue, targeting a younger demographic of women. The magazine is known for pushing a far-Left agenda on topics such as abortion, climate change, President Donald Trump, and a host of other political issues.
In 2020, Teen Vogue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-vogue-writer-argues-for-abolition-of-property?author=Jon+Brown&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Teen+Vogue+Writer+Argues+For+Abolition+Of+Property">published</a> an op-ed advocating for the abolition of personal property and the dismantling of police departments. 
In July 2019, the outlet published an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-vogue-issues-new-guidance-for-teens-seeking-abortion-rips-scotus-decision-overturning-roe?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Teen+Vogue+Issues+New+Guidance+For+Teens+Seeking+Abortion%2C+Rips+SCOTUS+Decision+Overturning+Roe">article</a> titled, “How to Get an Abortion If You’re a Teen,” in which the author posited, “It’s only logical that if teens are mature enough to become parents, they are mature enough to decide whether or not they want to give birth. Having access to abortion should be your right, regardless of your parents’ beliefs.”
“You know your parents best: Do you fear for your safety if you reveal your pregnancy?” the article asked. “Are you worried they might meet you with violence or kick you out of the house? If yes, there is a legal option in 36 states that would let you get an abortion without parental approval called a judicial bypass procedure — an infantilizing holdup to which nobody should have to resort.”
“Everybody loves someone who’s had an abortion. Including you,” the article concluded.
These are just some of the leftist topics Teen Vogue has promoted over the past two decades.

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Glamour UK magazine just named nine men as recipients of its annual “Women of the Year” Awards.
Transgender honorees Munroe Bergdorf, Maxine Heron, Taira, Munya, Bel Priestly, Dani St James, Ceval Omar, Mya Mehmi, and Shon Faye were all photographed for the magazine cover, standing together wearing “Protect the Dolls” t-shirts. &#8220;Dolls&#8221; refers to transgender-identifying males, and the shirts have been sold to raise money for a hotline providing support to transgender-identifying people in the United States and Canada.
Many of the reactions on social media were negative.
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9 men have been chosen as Glamour’s Women of the Year.
I heard on this site that woke is dead, but I’m not sure how anyone could ever think that considering K-12 education and universities are dominated by radicals pushing queer theory and every other civilization-destroying… <a href="https://t.co/G2g4IoUAWc">pic.twitter.com/G2g4IoUAWc</a>
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“9 men have been chosen as Glamour’s Women of the Year,” conservative activist Billboard Chris <a href="https://x.com/billboardchris/status/1983666109606981681?s=43">wrote</a> on X. “I heard on this site that woke is dead, but I’m not sure how anyone could ever think that considering K-12 education and universities are dominated by radicals pushing queer theory and every other civilization-destroying ideology.”
“Woke will never die until power in the education system is taken from the Left,” he added.
“I can’t believe this is real,” Libs of TikTok <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1983691103607112137">wrote</a>.
“So much for the women&#8217;s rights movement! Men are now stealing what it means to be a woman. Where are the so-called feminists?!” another reply <a href="https://x.com/JillPTorkelson/status/1983721580242072066">said</a>. 
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“I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier,” author J.K. Rowling wrote. “Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.”
Glamour UK included an article featuring interviews with the “dolls” where they expanded on the issue of transgender rights. 
“Now, trans people – and especially trans women – are facing a committed attempt from anti-trans pressure groups and right-wing politicians to make exclusionary policy the default across British public life including toilets, changing rooms, leisure facilities, workplaces, hospital wards and crisis support services. The intention is clear: to drive us out of public life to repress, then deny our existence,” the accompanying <a href="https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/protect-the-dolls-interview-2025-glamour-women-of-the-year-awards">article</a> says.
Bergdorf complained that trans-identifying people are facing “segregation laws” and “an inability to participate in public life.”
When the interviewer asked Omar what “protect the dolls” meant in practice, he replied, “I think it should, first and foremost, be ‘pay the dolls’ because there’s no protection like having stability and having money to secure yourself with housing and hormones and all these things. So, ‘paying the dolls’, I think, is very important, even when you think of protecting the dolls.”
This is not the first time men have been honored as women. In 2023, the U.K.-based outlet Attitude Magazine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-magazine-names-dylan-mulvaney-woman-of-the-year">named</a> trans activist Dylan Mulvaney as its Woman of the Year. The same thing happened in 2022 when influencer Linn da Quebrada <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-woman-man-crowned-glamour-brazils-woman-of-the-year">became</a> Glamour Brazil’s “Woman of the Year.”

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Vanity Fair may go ahead with a magazine cover featuring First Lady Melania Trump in the coming months — but only if the feat can be pulled off before all the disgruntled employees walk out the door.
According to a <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/08/24/2025/vanity-fairs-new-cruise-director-will-have-to-choose-between-his-reporters-and-his-friends">report</a> published by Semafor on Sunday, the magazine&#8217;s new global editorial director Mark Guiducci had indicated a desire to put the first lady on the cover — but as The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15032959/Vanity-Fair-Melania-Trump-cover.html">reported</a> a day later, his staffers may not be entirely onboard with his plan.
&#8220;I will walk out the motherf***ing door, and half my staff will follow me,&#8221; one editor told the outlet.
Another staffer who did not give a name appeared to be in agreement, adding, &#8220;We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we’re just not going to do it. We’re going to stand for what’s right. If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s, I’ll do it. If [Guiducci] puts Melania on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out, I guarantee it.&#8221;
One employee told The Daily Mail that the outrage was likely to amount to little more than a few loud complaints and protests, saying that it wasn&#8217;t likely many would actually sacrifice their careers to make a political statement about who was on the magazine&#8217;s cover.
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&#8220;It’s all talk. If they put her on the cover, people will protest and gripe about it, but I don’t see anyone quitting such a prestigious job over that. Honestly, there will be people who push back, but it’s ultimately Mark’s decision. He’s the one who will sink or swim over that choice, not the rest of us.&#8221;
The first lady may not mind if she never makes it to the cover, however, if her <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/26/media/vanity-fair-employees-lash-out-over-proposed-melania-trump-cover/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">last comments on the subject</a> still stand. When the magazine passed over her for a cover during Trump&#8217;s first administration — despite featuring former First Lady Michelle Obama on several occasions — she brushed off questions about it and said that it wasn&#8217;t important.
&#8220;Look, I’ve been there on the covers — on the cover of Vogue, on the covers of many magazines before,&#8221; Trump said, referencing her days as a model and then as Trump&#8217;s wife prior to him running for president. &#8220;We have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine. I think that life would not change for anybody if I’m on the cover.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> and former top Levi executive Jennifer Sey were just a few of the people who blasted a resurfaced magazine cover that praised a man as the highest paid female CEO.
In the recently reposted 2014 cover of the New Yorker magazine, the outlet wrote about trans-identifying male Martine Rothblatt as “The Highest Paid Female CEO In America.” The <a href="https://x.com/wesyang/status/1839084556336640027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> noted that Rothblatt had been named to the Mayo Clinic’s Board of Directors in 2022.
The host of Sirius XM&#8217;s “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast reposted the cover and slammed the fact that the magazine claimed Rothblatt was a woman. Her post has since gone viral with more than 4 million views at the time of publication.
“He is not female [and] he is not ‘the highest paid female CEO in America,’” <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1839288815178977487">Kelly</a> wrote to her millions of followers. “He climbed none of the mountains we did. Overcame none of our challenges.”
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He is not female &amp; he is not “the highest paid female CEO in America.” He climbed none of the mountains we did, overcame none of our challenges. He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40. He knows nothing about being a woman &amp; will never be one no matter his costume. <a href="https://t.co/Cpz7ptuHVz">https://t.co/Cpz7ptuHVz</a>
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1839288815178977487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
“He started pretending to be one of us at AGE 40,” she added. “He knows nothing about being a woman [and] will never be one no matter his costume.”
Sey &#8212; who was ousted as brand president at Levi Strauss &amp; Co. after more than 20 years with the company when she spoke out against COVID policy madness &#8212; also reacted to the New Yorker cover and broke down exactly why Rothblatt should not be celebrated as a woman who climbed some corporate ladder.
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“What is galling about this is this person didn&#8217;t start to ‘identify’ as a woman until he was in his 40s,” <a href="https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/1839307885206995094">Sey</a> wrote. “He experienced nothing of what actual women do in the work place as he rose the ranks.”
“He wasn&#8217;t pregnant, multiple times causing his bosses to wonder about his commitment to the job,” she added. “He didn&#8217;t have to come back from maternity leave after 6 weeks and have promotions delayed because he had babies; he didn&#8217;t have to come to work exhausted from having been up all night with a newborn.”
“He didn&#8217;t have to pump milk in a closet while trying to work,” Sey continued. “He wasn&#8217;t groped by gross sales guys at drunken sales meetings. He didn&#8217;t sit in jobs on average 18-24 months longer than male counterparts, delivering results but not getting promoted. He was the male counterpart getting promoted! No. Just no. This is not a triumph for women in the workplace. Give me an f***ing break.”
Kelly and Sey weren’t the only ones who blasted the move by the magazine.
“New glass ceiling hack: be a man, get to the top, wear a dress. The end,” one person <a href="https://x.com/dbstoic/status/1839648717961322509">wrote</a>.
Another <a href="https://x.com/Real_HouseMD/status/1839325987781452255">added</a>, “Galling doesn’t begin to cover it. And it’s another hallmark of a failing (but not yet hopeless) society.”
While a third person <a href="https://x.com/AmericaPapaBear/status/1839288979960811705">wrote</a>, “Let me say it loudly for the people in the back, men are not women. Got it?”
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