Generation Y

How Lame Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


Nelson Montana

How is it that a bunch of label executives have become the arbiters of who's worthy of honor and who isn't? It's the very antithesis of Rock and Roll!

Yoani Sanchez, HuffPost Blogger In Cuba, Not Allowed To Accept Columbia Award

AP | ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


HAVANA A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied go...

Signs of Seduction and Change Sprout on Cuban Bodies

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.

The Techno-Loner Generation: Are You Raising a Socially Illiterate Child?

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Keith Ferrazzi

Teenagers send and receive 2,272 texts a month and spend nine hours a week absorbed in social networking sites. Does the Digital Age stupefy the next generation?

Generation-Y Bloggers: How To Improve Your Writing Overnight

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


Diane Tucker

The Elements of Style is a masterpiece on the art of writing well, and it's a surprisingly quick read. Seriously, this rhetoric rulebook is so slim, it'll fit in the pocket of your hoodie.

The Problem with Gen Y and Its Search for Answers in Harry

Anna Kelner | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment


Anna Kelner

The generation that got everything clearly lacks something. Call it patience, call it obedience, call it willingness, but the traits that Gen Yers must cultivate are ironically exalted in their favorite children's story.

The Passing of the Kennedys and Healthcare Reform

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics


Michael B. Laskoff

With the de facto passing of the Kennedy's in politics, we have truly reached the end of an era. What comes next, it seems, is an age in which the operative question has changed. It is now: what can America do for me?

Honored Today With The Cabot Journalism Prize, I Will Use It To Grow The Cuban Blogosphere

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living


Yoani Sanchez

As I don't plan to wait to be allowed to open school of digital journalism in order to realize this project, I will begin it with bureaucratic and legal formality.

Generation Y Turns To Nostalgia For Comfort In Bad Economy

New York Times | David Browne | Posted 08.23.2009 | Style


Even though nostalgia hits every generation, it seems awfully early for 28-year-olds to be looking back. One possible explanation, say authors who foc...

Generation Gap Widening In US, Study Finds

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...

Alternative Careers: How Viable Is Your Plan B?

nytimes.com | Alex Williams | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living


IN more than a few circles -- publishing, finance, automotive design -- small talk at cocktail parties has shifted from real estate (too depressing) t...

The Greatest Generation Takes a Sip of Bourbon

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business


B. Jeffrey Madoff

The significance of every generation will be examined, interpreted and reinterpreted, but in reality, the distinctions between them aren't so clear.

Will The Next Generation Get Married?

The Stimulist | The Stimulust | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living


If you can put aside the inherent creepiness of hearing a man well past his teenage years talking about teenagers having sex, check out this Philip We...

Mother's Day Reminds Me of the Pill

Rachel Farris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living


Rachel Farris

Those little white hormones packed in foil aren't the controlled substance here: women are. And if anyone tells you differently, ask them why you can buy condoms and cigarettes in a 7-Eleven.

Making Sense of the Dumbest Generation

Tom Huston | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living


Tom Huston

Can we finally get over ourselves and start participating in life so fully, so unreservedly, that we remove any doubt as to where we really stand?

Generation Y: In Hard Times, Who Wants Slacker Employees? Management Guru Bruce Tulgan Says: We Do -- If We Guide Them

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business


Jesse Kornbluth

After fifteen years of working with business leaders in companies ranging from Aetna to Wal-Mart, Bruce Tulgan felt this was the right time to present a reality check about "Generation Y" employees.

Facebook And The Death of Mystery

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 04.02.2009 | Living


Kimberly Brooks

What struck me as so odd about the request for 25 secret things about me was I instantly envisioned that I could be creating a white paper on my entire spiritual, intellectual and life DNA.

Generational

JL Silverman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business


JL Silverman

The corporate ladder has rearranged itself like the staircases at Hogwarts. Now, twenty year olds can make a fortune with the Internet -- YouTube, Facebook, Google.

50 Years Later We Ask: When did the Cuban Revolution Die?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics


Yoani Sanchez

In 1975, the year I was born in Cuba, nothing remained of the rebellion that the older people remembered. We had neither long hair nor euphoria.

Who Says You Can't Go Home?

Carey Polis | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living


Carey Polis

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.

Cuba Cracks Down On Bloggers

Mother Jones | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.09.2009 | World


Havana-based writer Yoani Sanchez was recently named by Time magazine as one the 100 most influential people in the world, and she won the 2008 Ortega...

Cuban Officials Are "Intimidation Professionals"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.05.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

The Associated Press has reported on Cuban police accusing blogger Yoani Sanchez of illegal activity.

Cuba Police Accuse Prominent Blogger Of Illegal Activity

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 01.05.2009 | World


HAVANA — Police have prohibited Cuba's most prominent blogger from attending an independent cyber-workshop and warned that her activities ran af...

Trophy Kids in the Workplace: An Interview with Author Ron Alsop

Eric Kuhn | Posted 01.02.2009 | Style


Eric Kuhn

Author Ron Alsop finds that the iPod symbolizes the Millenials because they "are always connected to at least one, and often multiple technology devices and Internet sites."

The Ketchup Generation: Entry-Level Jobs Really are There for You, Even During a Recession; Here's the Secret

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business


Stephen Viscusi

Everyone I know under 30 loves ketchup -- on everything. When I grew up, it was just for french fries and hamburgers. Now, they practically want to use it as lube.