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Tegan Nam won the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge for high school with their story about using humor to process trauma. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption

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Student Podcast Challenge

After a lockdown, students found comfort in humor. But what are the jokes hiding?

This year's winner of our Student Podcast Challenge, junior, Teagan Nam, described how their friends and classmates turned to memes and social media as a coping method.

A man looks at newly drawn congressional districts for Gwinnett County, Ga., at a meeting of county Democrats this month. Sam Gringlas/WABE hide caption

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How 2 competitive districts in Georgia became a very red one and a very blue one

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Tony D'Amato, director of the University of Vermont's forestry program, visits an experiment site in the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. Emma Jacobs for NPR hide caption

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Foresters hope 'assisted migration' will preserve landscapes as the climate changes

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Tegan Nam won the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge for high school with their story about using humor to process trauma. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption

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After a lockdown, students found comfort in humor. But what are the jokes hiding?

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state prisoners have no constitutional right to present new evidence in federal court to support claims they were inadequately represented at trial and on appeal in state courts. Garen Meguerian/Getty Images hide caption

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Supreme Court hobbles challenges by inmates based on poor legal representation

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