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At a time when we need family and community solidarity more than ever, we are witnessing a growing wave of age-based debate and controversy.
Brent Green | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Given extraordinary economic pressure to continue working beyond traditional retirement age, older workers nevertheless confront entrenched obstacles to staying employed and finding jobs.
New York Times City Room | Sarah Maslin Nir | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...
Mark Miller | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business
Many boomers are burned out on big companies and want to try their hand running their own show before they hang it up for good.
Natale Zimmer | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
While there is much to be gained through passage of current health reform proposals, Congress' best intentions will be overshadowed if age discrimination is written into federal law.
Robert Fuller | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Whether directed at an individual or a group, rankism aims to put targets in their place and keep them weak so they will do as they're told and submit to being taken advantage of.
Janet Ritz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
What is a potential employer that has to choose between a fifty-something who comes with higher costs for health care and a twenty or thirty something who will cost them far less to do?
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.19.2009 | Entertainment
Your favorite movie could likely be written by someone over 40. If today's Hollywood executives had their way, your favorite movie wouldn't exist.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
In a society where we are cautioned to avoid waste, what a squandering of human resources occurs in our toxic age discrimination. Art, like life, needs the tonic mix of generations to thrive.
Paul Snyder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment
Fifteen years since the release of Toy Story, Pixar has made it very clear that they would like to be considered a movie studio in the classic sense: their films all seem to illustrate a singular creative perspective.
Larkin Clark | Posted 05.17.2009 | Style
If people ask my age, I tell them. We shouldn't feel shame for getting older; we should feel pride for having gotten so far. Living, after all, isn't easy.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment
When a beautiful, under 30-something sings like an angel, she can become an American Idol. When a dowdy, homely 47-year-old woman sings beautifully, it is headline news.
Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media
I love the world of social networking. But be careful of what information you can include if you are using these sites for business opportunities.
Heather Frank | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment
It appears that a mature movie star has realized that playing opposite a teeny-tiny young actress might make him look stupid, fat and old.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living
A society that does not respect the elderly and does not love babies is a society that has seriously lost its moorings.
Diane Francis | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
McCain has begun to seriously play up the enormous age gap between the two candidates. The latest salvo is a TV spot comparing Britney and Paris to Obama: a bulls-eye for Republicans.
Morgan Warners | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
I don't see McCain backing out of all the insinuations that old age is to blame for his geographic confusion, but it's the media's job to make him try...
Tim Berry | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
When I was 25 I was too young, the leaders were 50; and when I turned 50 (exaggeration for effect warning) the new world business leaders were 25.
The New York Times | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
IN a new self-help book called "How Not to Look Old," chapter headings in screaming capital letters warn readers of the dreaded signs of aging that ar...
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Jim Selman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living