Generation Z

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

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

How will they interpret the past?

The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.

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

Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?

By assigning personal attributes to birth cohort, generationism tends to undermine personal responsibility.

We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history—certainly not the first thing about Black history—without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.