You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Harry Potter.
In November 2010, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote about why it was so difficult for readers who grew up reading the series to say goodbye to Harry Potter.
You were born in November of 1998. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Edward G. Shirley wrote about how internal politics and a corrosive culture compromised the effectiveness of the CIA—and why reform might be impossible.
Around the time you were born, the national news reported that members of the bidding committee for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games had accepted bribes from Salt Lake City.
In July 2012, Matt Vasilogambros and Naureen Khan wrote about a gaffe between Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and British Prime Minister David Cameron leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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At 2 years old, you were part of the generation most shaped by 9/11.
The conflicts and displacements touched off around the world by the attacks have been reverberating for the majority of your life. “This ‘war’ [on terrorism] will never be over,” wrote James Fallows, a few years after the towers fell.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after iPhones.
In November 2016, Bianca Bosker described how a former Google product philosopher was working to redefine the relationship between consumers and technologies like the iPhone.
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When you turned 12, you witnessed the revolutionary fervor that transformed the Arab world in 2010, a movement led by your generation.
When 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, he ignited a tinderbox of protests that continue to roil the Middle East, and kindled the beginnings of democracy in Tunisia.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
A.N.T. Farm premiered in 2012.
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In 2012, Amandla Stenberg, who was born the same year as you, played the role of Rue in The Hunger Games.
In October 2015, Jenni Avins wrote about the dos and don'ts of cultural appropriation, referencing a video made by Stenberg.
Around your 18th birthday, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
Throughout 2016, James Fallows traced Trump's stunning rise and the many unprecedented aspects of his candidacy.
By the time you turn 51, economist Jim O'Neill predicts that drug-resistant infections will kill one person every three seconds.
But it's possible to prevent that. In May 2016, Ed Yong wrote about the recommended steps to avert a post-antibiotic apocalypse.
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