http://dir.salon.com/topics/baby_boomers/?source=rss&aim=baby_boomers en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST By Heather Havrilesky Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/07/havrilesky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/07/havrilesky/index.html?source=rss Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally get it. By Walter Shapiro Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/21/demographics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/21/demographics/index.html?source=rss From the youth vote to Sarah Palin's outdated embrace of the rural mystique, Salon's panel of demographers and consumer trend experts talks about how America is changing.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 Cary Tennis Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/15/older_beauty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/11/15/older_beauty/index.html?source=rss I'm 43 and I've always been beautiful, and now I am in a state of shock at what's happening! By James K. Galbraith Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly. By Damien Cave Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/31/film_literacy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/10/31/film_literacy/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/11/30/gen_xrs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/11/30/gen_xrs/index.html?source=rss I'm in my late 40s, and some of the younger people I work with make no sense at all to me! By James K. Galbraith Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/14/social_security/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/14/social_security/index.html?source=rss 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 Paul McLeary Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/08/22/rock/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/08/22/rock/index.html?source=rss A baby boomer rock critic condemns his generation's insistence on lionizing the burned-out bands of their long-lost youth. By Rachel Elson Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/04/06/baby_boon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/04/06/baby_boon/index.html?source=rss Elinor Burkett argues that family-friendly policies are racist, regressive and, worst of all, anti-woman. By Larissa Phillips Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/11/18/unmarried/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/11/18/unmarried/index.html?source=rss If marriage is risky, doomed and expensive, why bother? By Amy Reiter Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/11/10/np1110/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/11/10/np1110/index.html?source=rss 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 Holly J. Lebowitz Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/09/genx/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/09/genx/index.html?source=rss Why America's 80 million-strong Generation X may be losing its religion but finding its soul. By Joe Conason Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/03/09/cona/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/03/09/cona/index.html?source=rss They know something we don't: Big government works. By Sarah Vowell Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/col/vowe/1999/01/13/vowe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/col/vowe/1999/01/13/vowe/index.html?source=rss Did the heroes of WWII really know what they were fighting for? By John Milward Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1998/04/23/sharps/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1998/04/23/sharps/index.html?source=rss John Milward reviews Bonnie Raitt's "Fundimental". By Jennifer Reese Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/04/17/17feature/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/04/17/17feature/index.html?source=rss 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 Douglas Wolk Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1997/11/07/sharps/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1997/11/07/sharps/index.html?source=rss Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine By Todd Gitlin Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/05/27/boomer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/05/27/boomer/index.html?source=rss Why baby boomers hate Bill Clinton -- and themselves