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.
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
