The happy-sounding “World Happiness Report” is a reactionary anti-youth shill for authoritarian governments and Big Tech

The happy-sounding “World Happiness Report” is a reactionary anti-youth shill for authoritarian governments and Big Tech Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| April 2026 Its junk science and repressive recommendations hype social media’s “harm” to adolescents in order to obscure young people’s real issues that threaten corporate/government power. Just reading the benignly titled World Happiness Report 2026 reveals

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The UK backs off banning social media for youths under age 16 (for now). Ban-teens alarmists are treating their defeat like Armageddon

The UK backs off banning social media for youths under age 16 (for now). Ban-teens alarmists are treating their defeat like Armageddon Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| April 2026 The total ban’s failure creates an “emergency,” a top UK official trumpets. “So what will protect kids online?” a liberal-media headline wails. The United Kingdom’s drastic Online

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Los Angeles mental health authorities and media are hell-bent to convince teenagers they’re terrifyingly suicidal. Why?

Los Angeles mental health authorities and media are hell-bent to convince teenagers they’re terrifyingly suicidal. Why? Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| April 2026 L.A.’s teens’ suicide rates are 60% below the national average and have plunged 40% since 1990 and 75% since 1970. Yet, LA experts and media frantically strive to persuade teens they’re suicidal.

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Jonathan Haidt, globally acclaimed expert and policy guru on teenagers, mental health, and predators, never mentions Jeffrey Epstein. That’s weird.

Jonathan Haidt, globally acclaimed expert and policy guru on teenagers, mental health, and predators, never mentions Jeffrey Epstein. That’s weird. Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| March 2026 Even weirder: Haidt’s crusade to ban teens from social media is enthusiastically backed by Big Tech, Big Money, and Big Government. In societies that actually cared about children

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The High School: An Analysis of Yearbooks

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The High School: An Analysis of Yearbooks Karen Sternheimer, Sociologist, USC| March 2026 Michael Messner’s new book, The High School: Sports, Spirit & Citizens, 1903-2024 is a great example of how artifacts of everyday life can become data for sociological analysis. As a scholar of gender and sports, Messner realized that yearbooks serve as a window to

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Perfect! Right and Left are rigidifying their superficial pet “explanations” for why a mass shooter did what she did

Perfect! Right and Left are rigidifying their superficial pet “explanations” for why a mass shooter did what she did Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| March 2026 Ideological bigots make ONE shooter the poster for Canada’s 100,000 transgender individuals and 5 million teens/young adults long before facts are known. Back in 2020, 51-year-old alcoholic, arsonist, and

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Generation Z’s real social media sin has nothing to do with “mental health”

Generation Z’s real social media sin has nothing to do with “mental health” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| February 2026 Allied government/Big-Tech powers pushing censorship, mass surveillance, and repression target teenagers and online freedom. But those are just the beginning. Their larger goals are truly terrifying. The emotional, trivial-effect anti-teen/social-media junk dominating legislative and popular

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Election Lessons for Every Organization

Election Lessons for Every Organization Wendy Schaetzel Lesko, Co-Founder, Youth Infusion| January 2026 Profound lessons emerge from Zohran Mamdani’s victory even though NYC is unlike any other city. A historic turnout and a whopping 78 percent of those under age 30 voted for Zohran Mamdani. Sure, he is young, energetic, and charismatic, but I believe

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