generation gap

Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

The religious profile of young adults today differs dramatically from that of older Americans.

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.

We're born with a hunger for connection with our ancestors – both biological and spiritual.

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

America’s gerontocracy is disconnecting Congress from the rest of the country.

A decade or two ago, opposing NATO expansion to Ukraine was a position espoused by pillars of the American establishment. What happened?

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

The new punk generation made the hippies look past their prime.

Other than being alive during the 1960s, the baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the era's social and political upheaval.

The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous.

Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation.

Some age groups are more likely to recognize certain songs than others.

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.