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November 15, 2021
MagazineJames Chappel
End the Generation Wars
Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
September 17, 2020
MagazineWin McCormack
From I to We
Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s vision for a new civic community
April 22, 2020
J.C. Pan
Generational Warfare in a Pandemic
The fault line in this crisis is a small cohort of wealthy boomers against everyone else.
December 9, 2019
Rachel Riederer
Climate Change Is the Ultimate “OK, Boomer” Issue
The genesis of a generational conflict
September 5, 2019
Ted Scheinman
The Historical Amnesia of Joe Biden’s Candidacy
Baby Boomers are charmed by his rose-tinted revisionism. Younger Democrats see the past more clearly.
February 22, 2016
Bryan Williams
Why Baby Boomers Don’t Get Bernie Sanders
Hillary speaks to them. He speaks to everyone else.
June 2, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
News Formats Change, But the Content Stays the Same
Things people want to read haven't changed much since the dawn of mass media.
March 11, 2015
Elaine Teng
If You Want to Age Gracefully in the Movies, You'd Better Be British
January 14, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Obama Wants Home Care Workers to Get Minimum Wage, But a Federal Judge Is Standing in the Way
April 14, 2014
Danny Vinik
Why Republicans Have a Big Demographic Problem, in One Chart
July 1, 2013
Marc Tracy
Hillary Clinton, Our Last Boomer President
May 9, 2013
Marc Tracy
Millennials in Our 'Time'
What the magazine mangled in its controversial cover story

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