Breaking Points’ co-host Saagar Enjeti parrots the right wing’s wrong, dangerous crime myths Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 Crime (both violent and all offenses) stands at 55-year lows, driven by huge drops in cities and among increasingly diverse youth – exactly the opposite of Saager’s panic mode. (This article originally appeared in LA Progressive).
Good for them! United Kingdom teenagers are easily defying the dumb, dangerous “Online Safety Act” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 Teenagers are mass-defying UK leaders’ dangerous, ill-motivated crusade to restrict and ban young people from social media and expose them to dangerous “age verification” privacy violations, global tech analyst The Register reports: “With the UK’s Online
Ban smartphones from schools? If we’re truly concerned about safety, we’d ban kids from schools and let them keep their phones. Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| September 2025 OMG! Have you seen the FBI’s latest Crime in Schools report? “From 2020 to 2024, agencies reported 1,299,063 criminal incidents occurring at school locations… There were 1,504,310 offenses; 1,539,149
Trashing youth, part zillion Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| August 2025 To those who seek accuracy: believe nothing – nothing – cops, politicians, “experts,” and media splashes say about youth. Better yet, assume the opposite of what they say. In an honest society that cared about facts, fairness, and young people, Gloucester Township, New Jersey, Police Chief David Harkins,
How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| August 2025 “Breaking Points” August 11, 2025, alarmingly headlined: “Viral Chart EXPOSES Internet Fueled Personality Destruction,” with blaring subheads: “Studies show internet is ruining our cognitive abilities.” “Especially for young people,” podcast hosts Saager Enjeti and Krystal Ball
Not another “teenage panic.” Call in the National Guard! Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| August 2025 Jesse Pomeroy took extreme exception to people making fun of his deformed eye. From ages 11 to 14, he brutally beat, sexually assaulted, tortured, and dumped at least 10 children; his final murder was of a 10-year-old girl. Easy as
On Doing Democracy in “Third Places”: Youth Citizenship Education Anthony Bernier, Project Director, YouthFacts.org | August 2025 Among the vast numbers of books and articles published each year touting youth and promoting youth organizations, rarely is there anything new. Indeed it is all too expected to read cliches about building agencies and creating spaces in
Gen Z, Mental Health, and the Impacts of Systemic Neglect Milo Santamaria | October 2024 Many major research reports have come out showing that abuse and domestic violence are often the main causes of youth mental health issues, not the internet or social media like many new outlets claim. Gen Z is one of the
Abuse Is Not Accountability: Hitting Your Kids Will Not Prepare Them For The “Real World” Milo Santamaria | September 2024 It’s no secret that Gen Zs and Millennials are advocates for therapy and addressing their childhood trauma. However, parents from older generations do not seem happy about their children distancing themselves and forming their own
Berkeley Teens May Finally Get The Right to Vote This Fall By Milo Santamaria / July 2024 In 2016, Berkeley voters passed Measure Y1 allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in school board elections. However, it took almost eight years to finally implement the measure. The Berkeley city council reports that teens may be able
