Will Young Americans Tip November’s Election?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and the potentially decisive role that the youth vote will play in the Presidential election. Cyrus Beschloss, the C.E.O. of The Generation Lab, a company that studies trends among young people, joins the show to break down the latest polling data.
This week’s reading:
- “Biden’s Public Ultimatum to Bibi,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Israel’s Politics of Protest,” by Ruth Margalit
- “The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “A Generation of Distrust,” by Jay Caspian Kang
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