Teen Vogue Is Good

Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Yes, it’s still owned by Condé Nast. But Teen Vogue has been publishing writers who’ve managed to spread progressive and radical views to a new audience.

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Could Condé Nast be publishing the best mainstream forum for progressive views?

Since 2016, bolstered by the contributions of radicals like Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue has made a curious transformation into a venue that mixes standard fare culture writing with political primers like “Everything You Need to Know About General Strikes” and “Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.”

It hasn’t gone unnoticed by the rest of the media, with Quartz going as far as to say that the publication was “terrifying men like Donald Trump.”

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