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And in spite of that, girls are increasingly outcompeting boys and turning into future leaders.
Mike Males | Oct 9, 2023
Data from rural Placer County, California, mirrors a larger national trend that shows fewer teen pregnancies, reduced youth crime rates, and higher educational attainment.
Mike Males | Jun 6, 2023
Politicians and media are in their latest wave of ascribing young people’s mental health problems to anything but their real source: dysfunctional adults.
Mike Males | Mar 2, 2023
Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.
Mike Males | Mar 21, 2022
With one political party standing in support of a violent insurrection, we need better solutions than just “reconciliation.”
Mike Males | Jan 22, 2021
Older generations have generally favored “nowism,” which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today’s youth are done with it.
Mike Males | Oct 16, 2020
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, politicians from both parties are scapegoating youth—just as they’ve done before with crime and drugs.
Mike Males | Aug 17, 2020
Young voters broke overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders in the primary. Now Joe Biden has to earn their votes.
Mike Males | May 14, 2020
Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.
Mike Males | Dec 18, 2019
While much attention on the rising suicide rate focuses on youth, data shows that it's actually working-age adults who are being hit hardest.
Mike Males | Oct 12, 2019
While young people tend to vote for more progressive candidates, the policies they support are necessary for everyone’s survival.
Mike Males | Apr 25, 2019
And it offers a blueprint for reforming other districts that suffer from overpolicing.
Mike Males | Feb 14, 2019
White Americans need immigrants and diversity. That’s not do-gooder talk. It’s math.
Mike Males | Jan 11, 2019
Election night’s most surprising Democratic victory defies the trend of a growing urban-rural chasm.
Mike Males | Nov 30, 2018
Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.
Mike Males | Jul 27, 2018
Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students’ gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.
Mike Males | May 18, 2018
A dramatic 25-year reduction in gun violence among youth puts high schoolers in a unique position to influence debate.
Mike Males | Mar 6, 2018
To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.
Mike Males | Feb 16, 2018
Younger people consistently see human rights—racial, immigrant, gender, LGBT—as important and uncontroversial.
Mike Males | Dec 22, 2017
In recent years, increasing the power and independence of young women has brought dramatic decreases in pregnancies and sexual abuses.
Mike Males | Nov 20, 2017
More compassionate drug policy reforms in California have resulted in a drug death rate 40 percent below the national average.
Mike Males | Oct 31, 2017
While young and non-White people are perceived as more dangerous, middle-aged White people have the highest rates of gun ownership and gun deaths.
Mike Males | Oct 5, 2017
One of the Affordable Care Act’s fatal flaws enables Republican sabotage. But to lay the groundwork for change, progressives will have to resist powerful senior lobbies.
Mike Males | Sep 22, 2017
Tens of millions of Americans—many aging and white—are willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.
Mike Males | Sep 6, 2017
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safer living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
Mike Males | Aug 21, 2017
Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance, education, and vastly improved behaviors while older folks are acting worse. That isn’t starry-eyed idealism. It’s hard numbers.
Mike Males | Jul 17, 2017