Which murders matter? Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 Mass and celebrity shootings become even more tragic when authorities and commentators exploit them to inflame vicious campaigns targeting powerless groups. Should policy makers value only those lives and dangers the public is most concerned about and focus attention and policies on addressing those concerns?
Here’s a case that might counter my arguments about youth and social media Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 We all love love love “critical thinking”… in theory. We almost never practice it – and never on youth and social media issues. Union County, New Jersey, prosecutors accuse a 17-year-old boy of first-degree murder
Young men and violence are generating double the lies Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 Why are progressives who champion diversity and multiculturalism sabotaging multiracial Gen Z when they should be touting young people’s stunningly positive trends? In half a century of advocacy, I have been appalled again and again by the self-destructive compulsion
Progressives indulge irrational hostility to sabotage young people’s rights and any hope of a future Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Those who harbor liberal-left values have ONE remaining hope: that Gen Z dramatically turns America,
Psychology professor Chris Ferguson demolishes the media’s latest “ringing endorsement” of school cellphone bans Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 We get it. Politicians and school principals, teachers, and media reporters are flooding news reports with wild enthusiasm about bans on cellphones in schools. Just as their forebears wildly lauded students lined up in
Leftist commentators: Stop your dangerous demagoguery demonizing “young White men” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 In the wake of the horrific assassination of rightist celebrity Charlie Kirk, I had hoped the liberal-Left would retain a healthy respect for facts, qualms about indulging in primitive culture-war scapegoating, and calming voices against right-wing lunacies. Was
How the Left is getting Gen Z men and the “gender gap” wrong Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| October 2025 “One-third of young men say that marriage and children are central to their idea of success, while only a tiny fraction of young women agree,” a Sept. 15 Daily Kos staff story, “The Widening Gender Gap Is
Assassinations, unmentionable dead kids, and mass unpersoning Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 This isn’t going to be wimpy both-sidesism. The liberal-Left establishment has universally and vehemently grieved podcaster and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s horrifying assassination, even sanitizing Kirk’s hate-filled legacy while managing to ignore recent nuances. The liberal-Left’s responses to Kirk’s shooting stand
The “teen suicides” and tragedies we don’t care about, Part 2 Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 First: the never-mentioned context Popular discussion of what we call “teenage suicide” and drug overdose is so horrendously messed up that we have to begin with basic context. Below is the CDC’s latest tabulation of suicides and overdose deaths
The murdered kids we don’t care about, Part 1 Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 The nation remains fixated on last week’s shooting at a Minneapolis school, in which 2 children were killed and 17 children and 1 adult injured. Mass shootings deserve the anguish they engender and the vital context they rarely get.
