30 Oct, 2023
Mass Shootings and the Hundredth Monkey
Mass Shootings and the Hundredth Monkey by Rob Okun 700 words Another American first. We’re closing in on 600 mass...
30 Oct, 2023
25 Oct, 2023
More Than a Cease Fire, a Peace Fire
More Than a Cease Fire, a Peace Fire by Rob Okun 814 words As the October 7 war rages on—and...
20 Oct, 2023
No Vaccine for Domestic Violence…Yet
No Vaccine for Domestic Violence…Yet by Rob Okun 701 words For many, the history of mass shootings in the U.S....
16 Jun, 2023
Wanted: More Fathers on the Front Lines of Social Change
Wanted: More Fathers on the Front Lines of Social Change by Rob Okun 740 words Women’s activism, including mothers in leadership roles,...
15 May, 2023
Josh Hawley’s New Book on Manhood is Wrong on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Josh Hawley’s New Book on Manhood is Wrong on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once by Rob Okun 700 words Ideas...
1 Apr, 2023
Citizens Rising Up Against Guns and for Our Children
Citizens Rising Up Against Guns and for Our Children by Rob Okun 696 words Until people start to go into...
25 Jan, 2023
And Now They Want to Arm Our Children?
And Now They Want to Arm Our Children? by Rob Okun 553 words Days in January: 31. Number of mass...
12 Dec, 2022
In a dark time, the eye begins to see: Sandy Hook 10 years later
In a dark time, the eye begins to see: Sandy Hook 10 years later by Rob Okun 730 words Published...
9 Nov, 2022
Seeking a vaccine against meanness and hate
When far right Canadian extremist David DePape smashed his hammer into a patio glass door to gain entrance into the San Francisco home Paul Pelosi shares with his wife
20 Oct, 2022
Vote for your children’s future. Vote because it’s patriotic.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves. The only way they could do this is by not voting. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
20 Aug, 2022
Proud Men vs. Loud Boys
The mid-term elections are just weeks away, so now is the time for men to use our voices to help defeat extremist, antidemocratic candidates.
31 Jul, 2022
How a single baseball game could determine the future of democracy
Events this summer have unambiguously demonstrated that, to much of the nation, the hard right majority on the Supreme Court of the United States stands for injustice, while the “just-the-facts, ma’am” US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol stands for justice.
22 Jun, 2022
Is male birth control finally at hand?
With the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade threatening to severely curtail women’s reproductive rights, it might seem an odd moment to report good news about male birth control.
10 Jun, 2022
Time to launch “Dads Demand Action to Raise Healthy Boys”
How can we in good conscience celebrate Father’s Day in the middle of an epidemic of gun violence almost exclusively perpetuated by men? We can’t.
21 May, 2022
Mass shootings: It’s the masculinity, people
I’m beyond fed up that the gender of the murderers are still largely absent from conversations about America’s mass shootings crisis.