Millennials

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For a party desperately in need of pre-Social Security-age blood, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems like a promising prospect. The woman who felled Representative Joe Crowley in the New York 14th last week is just 28-years-old, which would make her the youngest member of Congress next January when she…

Here’s why Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, and Billy McFarland (the Fyre Festival guy) are the voices of their generation.

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The right fell for the myth of Pajama Boy, and it disregards young adults at its own peril.

Millennial women are leaving the Republican Party in droves in recent years, with less than a quarter of younger women voters now identifying as Republicans.

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Recently I visited a small university town. A friend recommended I visit a certain downtown coffee shop known for its exquisite espressos and Americanos. “It’s pretty hipster,” my friend warned, and it was. Everyone present was between the ages of, I guessed, 17 and 35. The men wore clothes that…

Few goods reflect a culture’s welfare, tastes, and very zeitgeist like food. Black-and-white images of hungry Londoners gripping loaves of bread define our perception of England in the mid-1800s. (They gripped Dickens’s, at least.) In times of decadence, spoiled Americans order an appetizer of peas…

#Adulting is hard! CNN has an unintentionally funny look at 26-year-old "new" adults who are having trouble leaving the nest and finding health insurance.

The would-be Dian Fosseys who have built a cottage industry of issuing pronouncements about the Millennials In The Mist have suffered yet another blow. For the better part of a decade, these generational gurus have been prattling on about how those of us born, roughly, between 1980 and 1995, don’t…

All Hail the Middle Man. (Or at least this one.) Meet Ryan Grant, a 28 year old who raids the clearance aisle at big box stores, and upsells items as a third party seller on Amazon. He started doing this to make some side hustle money, but then quit his job in accounting to do it full time. It…

While we’re distracted reliving last year’s election, a graver anniversary will be passing by. On Nov. 8, 1917, at 2:10 a.m., Vladimir Lenin’s soldiers stormed the Winter Palace after a two-day siege and found the men who’d fall to their coup. They stopped the clock in the former imperial dining…

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Massacre in Vegas. When tragedy strikes, there's a lot of misinformation out there. It's always best to sit back and wait (usually not very long) until the truth is reported. Here are three things to read today (if you're up to it) about the mass shooting in Las Vegas:

The Brady Campaign's Brass Balls. House majority whip Steve Scalise went back to work yesterday, and it was an emotional day on Capitol Hill. But, to paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, you never want to let a crisis go to waste. Insert the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Here's their welcome…

Josh Cobin seems a good enough guy. A little pudgy, maybe, with his hair thinning on top and a beard borrowed from a Civil War officer—one who forgot to get a trim before Mathew Brady showed up to take the battalion photograph. At 29, Josh is probably a little old for the sloppy look he affects. A…

Josh Cobin seems a good enough guy. A little pudgy, maybe, with his hair thinning on top and a beard borrowed from a Civil War officer—one who forgot to get a trim before Mathew Brady showed up to take the battalion photograph. At 29, Josh is probably a little old for the sloppy look he affects. A…

The millennials—perhaps you may have read about them somewhere along the line—are the largest generation in American history. Roughly speaking, they were born between 1980 and the early 2000s and this wide span, plus the sheer magnitude of their numbers, has created a taxonomy problem: There are so…

For all the millennials “feeling the Bern,” Time has come to a startling realization: “Young Americans Are Actually Not Becoming More Progressive,” the magazine announced last week (with a parental sigh). Republicans, you’ll remember, were predicted to have a “young-people problem” in 2016, but 37…

For all the millennials “feeling the Bern,” Time has come to a startling realization: “Young Americans Are Actually Not Becoming More Progressive,” the magazine announced last week (with a parental sigh). Republicans, you’ll remember, were predicted to have a “young-people problem” in 2016, but 37…

Millennials are responsible for more killings than Jeffrey Dahmer. At this point, my generation—those us born, roughly, between the 1982 and the year 2000—have been accused of killing dinner dates, golf, napkins, running, and Applebees. (OK, that last one is justifiable homicide.)

Senator Ben Sasse's new book The Vanishing American Adult calls attention to a coming-of-age crisis: The undeniable drag that consumerism, technology, and other modern forces have had on the institution of family and the work ethic for which Americans were once recognized around the world.

By most measures, Will Manidis is like many other American high school students. He plays lacrosse for Westtown, his Quaker boarding school outside Philadelphia. He’s captain of Westtown's robotics team, which has deepened his interest in math and computer science. Last fall, in the heat of the…

On this latest mini-episode, the Substandard tackles the Wendy's Nuggets Guy—you know, the one who asked for the free "nuggs" and was told by Wendy's that he'll need 18 million retweets. He's not even close, and that's a good thing.

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Just weeks after 9/11, Charles Krauthammer declared in these pages that our holiday from history—the 1990s—had come "to an abrupt end." And the United States did get back to work—briefly. But it turns out that President George W. Bush's exhortation in the aftermath of 9/11 that we should keep on…

For much of my life we didn't divide people into age groups. Today, some of the millennials are making a bad showing and taking a beating for it. As Dr. King would suggest, let's judge them by the content of their character.

Obamacare appears to be circling the drain. All the things that were predicted are coming to pass. Copays and premiums are rising and insurers are bailing out of the market. Obamacare depended, always, on young, healthy people enrolling. They would need less care so their premiums could be used pay…

In keeping with Hillary Clinton's quest to attract Millennials, her campaign store now offers an adult coloring book for sale for $15. Although the description reads "For Hillary supporters of all ages," the coloring book is clearly in the style targeted at post-adolescent amateur artists.

Hillary Clinton gave a speech Monday addressed to, well, me. In Philadelphia, the Democratic candidate for president delivered an address aimed explicitly at "millennials"—those of us born, roughly, between 1982 and 1998. (Like all bogus pseudoscientific categories, who exactly constitutes a…

Four years ago, President Obama won 60 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29, but by the latest national polling numbers, Hillary Clinton's support among the same age group hovers around just 30 percent. Clamoring to appeal to a Bernie Sanders-loving youth, the Clinton campaign is hewing…

"Millennial voters could play key role in presidential race,” declared a recent Newsday headline for an article touting "the demographic shift to a younger electorate." The article is typical of reports that millennials—the generation born from the early eighties to the early aughts—have pulled…

A dive into Hillary Clinton's plans to capture the youth vote in November revealed that her strategy largely revolves around stealing Bernie Sanders.

I’ve never liked feeling stereotypical. Which is why I would like you to know that this story does not involve a vanilla latte. As bland, generic—dare I say, basic?—as my tale might otherwise be, some lines cannot be crossed. Despite being the premier Starbucks drink of choice for women in their…

President Barack Obama extolled hip Nordic innovations such as Angry Birds, electronic music by Avicii, and Legos during a welcoming ceremony for leaders from the region Friday.

Hillary Clinton may have a Millennial problem on her hands. A survey from USA Today and Rock the Vote released last week found her main Democratic opponent, Vermont independent senator Bernie Sanders, is winning Democratic primary voters between the ages of 18 and 34 by more than 10 points, 46…

Brands these days want to do all they can to connect with rich, tech savvy Millennials. They key to this newer, hipper generation is "engagement" with brands on the Internet and on social media.

Democrats have won votes by alleging that Republican positions amount to a "war on women." Yet politicians and pundits are now saying that a constellation of liberal policies favored by Democrats, on issues ranging from entitlements and healthcare to education and the economy, constitutes a war on…