内容摘要：Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the

Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the Palme d’Or at the

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman launched The Trust in American Institutions Challenge last December with philanthropic accelerator Lever for Change. The $10 million open call will scale local solutions to restore public confidence in anything from education and government to media and medicine.Hoffman, a 57-year-old Democratic megadonor, finds philanthropy offers more opportunities “for beginning the trust stuff.” He said that’s because there are no conflicting interests other than the mission.

The challenge is not focused solely on youth. Hoffman said “just about everybody” can recognize society’s trust issues. As he sees it, the problem isn’t that institutions don’t work for young people. They do work, according to Hoffman, and “part of being young is learning that.” The idea, he added, “is to reconnect and revivify.”“We’re like fish in water. We don’t realize how important these institutions are to our ongoing environment,” Hoffman said. “Revitalizing them is an important part of a society that works.”Another effort is connecting youth representatives with decision-makers to help civic institutions reach new generations ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary.

Recognizing that today’s teens and young adults will inherit American democracy, Youth250 is passing the microphone to young people as the country reflects on its past and looks ahead to its future. Institutions can request free input from the Youth250 Bureau. The initiative includes 100 advisors ages 18 to 30 — all compensated by the civic network Made By Us — who are working with museums, historic sites and libraries to center Gen Z’s perspectives.Dillon St. Bernard, the 25-year-old Youth250 documentary series director, said the campaign “is about turning representation into power.”

He emphasized the need to build intergenerational coalitions. Today’s challenges — climate change, democracy and racial justice — haven’t been solved by their predecessors, according to St. Bernard.

“We as a generation have known nothing but a house on fire and want to see what it would look like to stop that spread,” he said.A woman carries her dog as she walks on a street with pieces of broken glass at the site of a residential building that was damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

“If anyone still doubts Russia wants war to continue — read the news,” Katarina Mathernová wrote on the social network.The debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell in at least six Kyiv city districts. According to the acting head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, six people required medical care after the attack and two fires were sparked in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.

The Obolon district, where a residential building was heavily damaged in the attack, was the hardest hit with at least five wounded in the area, the administration said.Yurii Bondarchuk, a local resident, said the air raid siren “started as usual, then the drones started to fly around as they constantly do.” Moments later, he heard a boom and saw shattered glass fly through the air.