generations 
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8/14/2022
Despite the Cultural Differences, There's Common Ground Between Boomers and Zoomers
by Joseph Preston Baratta
Despite the differences in their cultural touchstones, Gen Z faces the yet-incomplete challenge of the Baby Boom generation: uniting the world in novel ways to solve global problems.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/15/2021
Thinking in Generational Terms is Holding Us Back
by James Chappel
"A politics that relies on young people to revitalize democracy and address inequality is likely to prove a disappointment."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/11/2021
Time to Stop Talking about "Generations"
by Louis Menand
By this light, generations are just a novel way of slicing up the space-time continuum, no more arbitrary. The question, therefore, is not “Are generations real?” The question is “Are they a helpful way to understand anything?”
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/17/2020
“I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility”
Today’s 40-year-olds on the lives they’ve led, and now this.
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SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
3/29/2020
Coronavirus Comparisons to World War II Are Rampant. Are We Ready to Be the Greatest Generation?
How similar is coronavirus mobilization to World War II mobilization?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/27/2020
He Wrote the Book on Boomers, and He Thinks the Gen Z Rap Against Them Isn’t Quite OK
“The Greater Generation” was a conscious retort to decades of boomer bashing. “Hating boomers,” Steinhorn recalls, “had become the last acceptable prejudice.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/13/19
The problem with ‘OK, boomer’
by Holly Scott
Generational divides distract from deeper questions of power. Boomers should remember that from the 1960s.
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