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My Turn: How men vote on reproductive rights could determine the next president
10-24-2024 5:59 PM

By ROB OKUN

 With so many women’s lives in danger, men remain the largest group of passive supporters of reproductive rights in the country. We very well may hold the key that opens the front door to the White House.It’s no secret that men, especially young men,...

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Guest columnist Rob Okun: President Bush — You must not remain silent in this election
09-29-2024 2:47 PM

By ROB OKUN

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump … I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.” — Dick Cheney, former Republican vice president President...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: The 50-year-old ‘new’ masculinity
09-04-2024 4:04 PM

By ROB OKUN

 Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s actually new, though, is what’s now coming into...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: How ‘white dudes’ may reshape manhood this election
08-02-2024 7:00 PM

By ROB OKUN

 White men are coming out, but not in the way you might think.Before more than 190,000 men joined a “White Dudes for Harris” call on July 29, the common wisdom parroted by the news media is that most white men support extreme right causes and...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Still No. 1 in male mass shootings 25 years after Columbine
04-23-2024 6:26 PM

By ROB OKUN

 Fortunately, there wasn’t a copycat mass shooting to grotesquely mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999. But just as we can be certain there will be another solar eclipse, it’s only a matter of time before a hail of...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Will men organize to end gun violence?
02-13-2024 4:26 PM

By ROB OKUN

Guest columnist Rob Okun: Will men organize to end gun violence?


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Mass shootings and the hundredth monkey
11-05-2023 11:15 PM

By ROB OKUN

Another American first. We’re closing in on 600 mass shootings in 2023 and — good news, people — there’s still two months left in the year. Can we get to 650? 700? USA! USA! USA!Banks. Bars. Beauty Salons. Big box stores. Bowling alleys. Concerts....


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Wanted: More fathers on the front lines of social change
06-19-2023 4:06 PM

By ROB OKUN

Women’s activism, including mothers in leadership roles, is legendary. Moms have long employed their moral authority as parents to advance the social good.Where are the fathers and grandfathers? We care about our children and grandchildren, too. As...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Josh Hawley on manhood: Wrong on everything
05-22-2023 5:54 PM

By ROB OKUN

Ideas about men and manhood have been evolving for more than 50 years, but U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has not gotten the message. Like so many others working to protect white male supremacy (see Tucker Carlson, Kevin McCarthy), he’s driving a gas-guzzling...


My Turn: Citizens must rise up against guns, and for our children
04-17-2023 5:30 PM

By ROB OKUN

“Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes … If you don’t have the people rising up, like what they did with civil rights, like what they did to end the Vietnam War … If you don’t have that,...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: And now they want to arm our children?
02-03-2023 12:18 PM

By ROB OKUN

Days in January: 31. Number of mass shootings in the United States as of Jan. 31: 52. (I pray the number hasn’t gone up by the time you read this.)From cries of madness to tears of rage; from citizen fury to congressional prayers, we careen toward a...

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