Monday’s Interests: Are Today’s Teens better than We Were?

Monday’s interests are all about News, Politics and Current Events.  Are today’s teens better than we were, and are they winning the culture war?

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• In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia — George Orwell

read

• “Trump Is Like, ‘How Can I F–K With Him?’”: Trump’s War with Amazon (and The Washington Post) Is Personal (Gabriel Sherman, Vanity Fair)
• California Commits Massive Medicaid Fraud (Davis Catron, The American Spectator)
• Today’s teens are better than you and we can prove it (Sarah Kliff, Soo Oh, and Sarah Frostenson, Vox) 
• The Parkland Teens Are Winning the Culture War (Benjamin Hart, NYMag)
• The Fake Gun Control Debate (Scott Adams, blog.Dilbert.com)
• Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan Builds Power From the Ground Up — And Sometimes From the Basement (Mick Dumke, ProPublica)
• Can you prove you’re not a racist? (Lionel Shriver, Spectator USA)
• Why Democrats Are Blue and Republicans Are Red (Shon Arieh-Lerer and Aaron Wolfe, Slate)

listen

• Gerrymandering 101 (Today, Explained)

watch

• The 3,000-Year History of the Hoodie (Paola Antonelli, TED)

Look

• Photos of the Week (Reuters)
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