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CSUSB’s Meredith Conroy on ‘Five notable gender gaps in 2025’
Gender Gap on Substack
Dec. 23, 2025
Meredith Conroy (political science) wrote for her Substack a year-end wrap up in which she highlighted her “five of the most interesting gender gaps that I've been filing away since last December.” Conroy’s “Gender Gap” focuses on gender gaps in American politics: “Where are gender gaps, why do they emerge, and how do they matter for understanding our current political moment?         

MAGA’s next civil war is brewing
The Telegraph (UK) via MSN
Dec. 22, 2025
Brian Levin, an extremism expert at the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was quoted in an opinion column about the influence of extremist Nick Fuentes in the Republican Party. Levin noted Fuentes’ talent at tapping into the discontent felt by many young men. “It just feels right for those males who feel they’ve been stepped on for too long,” he said, although he condemned the podcaster as a “bigoted carnival barker” and “racist Wizard of Oz.”

Alleged L.A. bomb plot: What we know about the Turtle Island Liberation Front
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 25, 2025
Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article about the arrest of suspects who planned a terror attack over New Year’s Eve, and the ideology of the group, the Turtle Island Liberation Front. “Groups like ... TILF specifically reject peaceful means and embrace revolutionary-inspired liberation violence,” Levin said. The TILF’s ideology, size and operation reminded him of 1970s fringe groups such as the Weather Underground, which carried out politically motivated violence.

CSUSB professor emeritus discusses recent arrest of suspects in planned New Year’s Eve attacks
Spectrum News 1
Dec. 22, 2025
Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, was interviewed for a segment on the continuing coverage of the arrest of four people suspected of plotting a New Year’s Eve attack in Southern California.

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