Mike Males

Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.

With one political party standing in support of a violent insurrection, we need better solutions than just “reconciliation.”

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.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, politicians from both parties are scapegoating youth—just as they’ve done before with crime and drugs.

Young voters broke overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders in the primary. Now Joe Biden has to earn their votes.

Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.

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.

While young people tend to vote for more progressive candidates, the policies they support are necessary for everyone’s survival.

And it offers a blueprint for reforming other districts that suffer from overpolicing.

White Americans need immigrants and diversity. That’s not do-gooder talk. It’s math.

Election night’s most surprising Democratic victory defies the trend of a growing urban-rural chasm.

Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.

Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students’ gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.

A dramatic 25-year reduction in gun violence among youth puts high schoolers in a unique position to influence debate.

To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.

Younger people consistently see human rights—racial, immigrant, gender, LGBT—as important and uncontroversial.

In recent years, increasing the power and independence of young women has brought dramatic decreases in pregnancies and sexual abuses.

More compassionate drug policy reforms in California have resulted in a drug death rate 40 percent below the national average.

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.

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.

Tens of millions of Americans—many aging and white—are willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.

New data on violent deaths show that all people are safer living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.

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.