Baby Boomers

An open apology to boomers everywhere An open apology to boomers everywhere

Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally get it.
  • Why is Barack Obama now electable?

    From the youth vote to Sarah Palin's outdated embrace of the rural mystique, Salon's panel of demographers and consumer trend experts talks about how America is changing.
  • I can't stand losing my beauty as I age!

    I'm 43 and I've always been beautiful, and now I am in a state of shock at what's happening!
  • Social Security scare campaign

    Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly.
  • Reel world domination

    If young film buffs choose Tarantino over Antonioni, are they culturally illiterate? Some of their elders, self-appointed guardians of the cinematic canon, think so.
  • The Gen Xers are driving me crazy

    I'm in my late 40s, and some of the younger people I work with make no sense at all to me!
  • Schieffer was wrong, Kerry was right

    Contrary to the moderator's suggestion in the third debate, Social Security is not running out of money. And the Democratic candidate wasn't pandering when he said privatizing it would be disastrous.
  • "Rock 'Til You Drop" by John Strausbaugh

    A baby boomer rock critic condemns his generation's insistence on lionizing the burned-out bands of their long-lost youth.
  • Nonparent trap?

    Elinor Burkett argues that family-friendly policies are racist, regressive and, worst of all, anti-woman.
  • The case against matrimony

    If marriage is risky, doomed and expensive, why bother?
  • Model behavior

    Cindy, Rebecca and Daisy on the trials and tribulations of being paid to stand; Bill and Hill moving in next door? There goes the fictional neighborhood; Venus on Mars: La Hurley makes the Red Planet blush. Plus: Seinfeld, bride-poacher.
  • Lost and found

    Why America's 80 million-strong Generation X may be losing its religion but finding its soul.
  • Honor thy geezers

    They know something we don't: Big government works.
  • The greatest degeneration

    Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for?
  • Bonnie Raitt

    John Milward reviews Bonnie Raitt's "Fundimental".
  • Scenes from a Shake-'N-Bake life

    With 'The Lunch-Box Chronicles,' former druggie and bad girl Marion Winik is being hyped as the boomer Erma Bombeck. But in her review of the book, Jennifer Reese says Winik is so blissed out on momhood she makes Bombeck seem cynical.
  • Serge Gainsbourg.......tzadik

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
  • Boomerang

    Why baby boomers hate Bill Clinton -- and themselves

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