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Improving Millennials’ Civic Health — and the Country’s
Originally published at Huffington Post Millennials (born 1982-2003) are America’s most civic-oriented generation, since their GI Generation great grandparents. They believe in collective, local, direct action to solve their community’s and the nation’s problems. However, a recent report on the state of Millennials’ civic participation indicates that the generation’s interest in taking part in political activities …
The Stay-at-Home Millennial Generation Is Moving Out
Originally published at NationalJournal In an effort to help the Republican ticket cut into President Obama’s massive advantage with millennial-generation voters, Paul Ryan delivered what may have been his best line of the 2012 campaign in his speech accepting the GOP vice presidential nomination: “College grads shouldn’t have to live out their 20s in childhood bedrooms staring …
Want to See Better US-Chinese Relations? American and Chinese Millennials Could Be Key
Originally published at NewGeography.com While it is still fashionable for politicians in both China and the United States to prove their domestic leadership credentials by taking tough stances against their nation’s chief economic rival, the results of recent Pew surveys conducted in the two countries suggest that this type of rhetoric is a holdover from an …
Why Millennials Choose a Blended Life Over a Balanced One
Originally published at BeInkandescent The cry for a better balance between work and life is deeply rooted in generational attitudes and behaviors. Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) tended to be workaholics—causing the average time their Gen X children spent with an adult role model during a typical day to fall to about 14.5 minutes. Despite their parents’ …
Welcome a Different Kind of Entrepreneur
Originally published at BeInkandescent In the last half of the 19th century, Horatio Alger, Jr. defined for the American popular culture what it meant to be a young entrepreneur. Indeed, the writer of popular novels for children showed us through the heroes in his books that poor boys, by dint of hard work and better …
Why is Facebook becoming increasingly unfriendly?
Based on the continuing rise in the popularity of Facebook, which adds another 100 million users about every six months, and the overall increase in the percentage of those users who have unfriended someone, more than a half a billion people experienced the sting of rejection on the site in 2011, compared to approximately 158 …
Will the Supreme Court Treat ObamaCare Dreadfully or Give US a New Deal?
On Monday, the Supreme Court will begin an unusual three-day session, hearing oral arguments on a case of clear political, philosophical, and constitutional significance—the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”). Every 80 years the Court has decisively entered a sharply divided political process to provide its own answer to the fundamental question of American politics: what …
USC Road To The White House: Politics, Media and The Presidential Primaries
Morley Winograd (one half of Mike & Morley) moderated a March 7, 2012 panel for the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and Policy’s “Road To The White House Series”. He was joined by Los Angeles Bureau Chief and former Chief National Political Correspondent for the New York Times Adam Nagourney; senior fellow at CCLP and veteran political reporter Cinny Kennard, the …
Millennials Are a “We” Not “Me” Generation
Professor Jean Twenge is continuing her long war against America’s young people. Now it’s with an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology with the imposing title, “Generational Differences in Young Adults’ Life Goals, Concern for Others, and Civic Orientation.” The article uses data from a number of surveys (some meaningful and …
You Can’t Trust Hyper-Connected Experts
Is technology hurting or helping Millennials and future generations? Recently, Pew Research published the findings of its survey of over 1000 technology experts on the possible effect on the Millennial Generation of growing up in a media saturated, hyper-connected world. We were flattered to be included in their sample of experts, but would nevertheless urge …
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