Ageism 2009
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.
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.
Schuyler Brown | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
Slowly, painfully, we're leaving behind a dream of eternal youth and settling into a new idea about maturity.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Fighting against being defined by America's bygone eras, New Muslim Cool points us toward a more complicated future.
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — From cell phones and texting to religion and manners, younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest g...
Michelle Cote | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
"I'm comiiiiinggg!" Tutu sings out from the adjacent room, the words rolling off his tongue in a playfully high-pitched refrain, before he comes wheeling and teetering -- all 5'2" of him -- around the corner of his suite at the Atlanta Grand Hyatt.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
What we don't know about women in their fifties, when we are in our twenties, is that we can not only make it down a flight of stairs, but our hearts and souls still feel as they did in our twenties.
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living
Far from being the spoiled generation, twentysomethings are finding the simple things their parents were able to do (like moving out, like newly married couples being able to buy a home) impossible.
Jim Selman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living
Many young people are learning to be more flexible, to live more in the moment, and to be more creative and less "attached" to their plans than generations who grew up in other times.
Russ Wellen | Posted 04.27.2009 | Living
Political differences between family members only reinforce a rueful truth: Family is just a random grouping of beings who, if fate hadn't cast their lots together, would likely have never sought each other out.
Dean Baker | Posted 01.21.2009 | Media
The Washington Post had the gall to run a column complaining about how "we" are passing on a bad world to our children. They're right about the problems, but wrong about the "we."
Carey Polis | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
I know very few people who are truly happy with their post-college lives. But, as much as I want to conveniently use the term "quarterlife crisis," it's not what's going on.
Chris DeWolfe | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media
A campaign no longer has the luxury of thinking of the Internet as an afterthought, but rather it must be a major part of the strategy of every campaign from president down to student body president.
Tina Wells | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
Instead of entertaining mindless arguments about the racial implications of the election, young people want to know what the candidates can do for the people to better our nation.
Karen Stabiner And Sarah Dietz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
I do not belong to any demographic that Radiohead cares about, and Kanye West probably does not know that people like me exist. But that's going to be me in the crowd at Lollapalooza.
New York Times | STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Conventional wisdom, supported by academic studies using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, maintains that today's young people -- schooled in th...
Jim Selman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living