By Colette Davidson, Dina Kraft, Sara Miller Llana,
By Hidayatullah Noorzai, Scott Peterson, and Ann Scott Tyson
A South African student waits out her pregnancy, studying remotely from a small rented room in pandemic isolation; an Afghan boxer gets deported from Iran in a pandemic sweep, ending his hope of settling in the West; a French entrepreneur sees his business moment stalled by pandemic shutdowns. They are three of twelve 21-year-olds the Monitor closely followed during the last three months of 2020 to offer a glimpse of how a generation is coping, in real time, with a crisis likely to define it for decades to come.
with writing and reporting from Colette Davidson, Dina Kraft, Sara Miller Llana, Hidayatullah Noorzai, Scott Peterson, and Ann Scott Tyson
A South African student waits out her pregnancy, studying remotely from a small rented room in pandemic isolation; an Afghan boxer gets deported from Iran in a pandemic sweep, ending his hope of settling in the West; a French entrepreneur sees his business moment stalled by pandemic shutdowns. They are three of twelve 21-year-olds the Monitor closely followed during the last three months of 2020 to offer a glimpse of how a generation is coping, in real time, with a crisis likely to define it for decades to come.Â