Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally get it.
By Heather Havrilesky Nov 7, 2008
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From the youth vote to Sarah Palin's outdated embrace of the rural mystique, Salon's panel of demographers and consumer trend experts talks about how America is changing.
By Walter Shapiro
October 21, 2008
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I'm 43 and I've always been beautiful, and now I am in a state of shock at what's happening!
By Cary Tennis
November 15, 2007
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Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly.
By James K. Galbraith
August 31, 2004
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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.
By Damien Cave
October 31, 2002
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I'm in my late 40s, and some of the younger people I work with make no sense at all to me!
By Cary Tennis
November 30, 2006
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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.
By James K. Galbraith
October 14, 2004
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A baby boomer rock critic condemns his generation's insistence on lionizing the burned-out bands of their long-lost youth.
By Paul McLeary
August 22, 2001
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Elinor Burkett argues that family-friendly policies are racist, regressive and, worst of all, anti-woman.
By Rachel Elson
April 6, 2000
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If marriage is risky, doomed and expensive, why bother?
By Larissa Phillips
November 18, 1999
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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.
By Amy Reiter
November 10, 1999
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Why America's 80 million-strong Generation X may be losing its religion but finding its soul.
By Holly J. Lebowitz
October 9, 1999
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They know something we don't: Big government works.
By Joe Conason
March 9, 1999
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Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for?
By Sarah Vowell
January 13, 1999
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John Milward reviews Bonnie Raitt's "Fundimental".
By John Milward
April 23, 1998
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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.
By Jennifer Reese
April 17, 1998
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
By Douglas Wolk
November 7, 1997
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Why baby boomers hate Bill Clinton -- and themselves
By Todd Gitlin
May 27, 1996
An open apology to boomers everywhere
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