JDV on Gen Z
Putting public opinion into context while creating a pathway to understanding, empowering, and engaging Gen Z.
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- Aug 12, 2026
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The Democratic Wave Is Real. The Mandate Is Not. (opens the original)
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The BackdropAt first glance, the story looks simple: Democrats have the energy.But the more you listen to voters — and the more primary results we get — the more complicated it becomes.In Wisconsin, Democrats chose the more pragmatic candidate. In Minnesota, they chose the progressive. Elsewhere, they have rewarded challengers, incumbents, moderates, and candidates from the left.Those choices may look contradictory. I’m not sure they are.Voters may be saying different things about ideology,
How to Get Your Son to Vote (opens the original)
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The BackdropThere is one question I hear again and again from parents and grandparents, usually after a talk or in a note sent afterward: What can I actually do to get my son, or my grandson, to vote?And increasingly, it is the young men they are worried about — the sons and grandsons who have gone quiet on politics, who shrug when elections come up, who have decided that none of it is worth their time.I’ve spent more than two decades listening to young Americans. So I went back to what these yo
Gen Z Just Did the Math on Your $14 Billion Data Center (opens the original)
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The BackdropThis week, Meta and BlackRock announced they are putting roughly $14 billion into a single AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, a one-gigawatt complex rising in one of the most water-stressed corners of the American desert.The headlines framed it as a finance story: an 80 percent stake, billions in debt, a race to build the physical back… Read more
A New PM Made Mental Health a Priority. America Is Still Waiting. (opens the original)
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The BackdropEarlier today, Andy Burnham walked out onto the steps of Downing Street as Britain's new prime minister and framed his whole project around a single word: hope. Bring it back. Rebuild it. He opened with a national drive to end rough sleeping and tied the country's renewal to the health of its people, mental health included, treating it as pa… Read more
When "Socialist" Became a Compliment (opens the original)
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The BackdropAfter a string of primary upsets from New York to Colorado, Democrats are once again debating whether young voters are moving toward socialism.That is the wrong question.The story isn’t that young people have suddenly fallen in love with socialism.It’s that they’ve fallen out of love with a Democratic Party they increasingly describe as old,… Read more
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