Tag: Millennial Generation

It Sucks to Be 33

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How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy

I have covered economics for 11 years now, and in that time, I have come to the realization that I am a statistic. Every time I make a major life choice, I promptly watch it become the thing that everyone is doing that year. I started college in 2009, in the era of all-time-high matriculation […]

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When It Comes to Dating, Ambition Might Matter More Than Politics

I read through all 274 responses to a questionnaire I put out about how politics affects the dating lives of Americans under 30, and I took note of the fact that quite a few respondents used economic terminology when describing their romantic experiences. The term “scarcity,” in particular, came up more than once as a […]

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The ‘Mean Girls’ Movie Is Nicer. Teens Are Not.

For a certain breed of millennial like me, Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” was gospel — a movie turned cultural phenomenon that put names and labels to the kind of bullying that any woman who’d been to middle or high school would recognize. The beauty of the film was that it got at just how vicious, […]

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Millennials Don’t Know What to Wear. Gen Z Has Thoughts.

Something about my outfit just wasn’t right. Was it the height of my socks? The cut of my jeans or sweater? If you, like me, find yourself asking these questions, there’s a good chance you’re a millennial trying to wade through TikToks that shame your choice of jeans. We’re not just getting dragged for our […]

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Today’s Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians

Although it has never been easy to be a teenager, the current generation of young Americans feels particularly apprehensive, new polling shows — anxious about their lives, disillusioned about the direction of the country and pessimistic about their futures. Just one-third of respondents ages 12 to 17 said things were going well for children and […]

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Why Millennials Are Declaring Themselves Obsolete

There’s a keening sound coming from America’s co-working spaces, third-wave coffee shops, and mommy-and-me yoga classes. Perhaps you’ve heard it, as if 72.2 million complaints rang out in unison: grumblings of sore joints from high-intensity interval training, of parties held in distant neighborhoods on weeknights; grievances about the resurgence of Y2K style, the onset of […]

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The DeSantis Campaign Is Revealing What Republican Voters Really Want

If Ron DeSantis surprises in Iowa and beyond, if he recovers from his long polling swoon and wins the Republican nomination, it will represent the triumph of a simple, intuitive, but possibly mistaken idea: That voters should be taken at their word about what they actually want from their leaders. It was always clear, going […]

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Jewish American Families Confront a Generational Divide Over Israel-Hamas War

Marc Kornblatt prepared uneasily last month for his daughter, Louisa, to arrive for 10 days with the family. Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different. Mr. Kornblatt sang under his breath some lyrics from “West Side Story”: “Get cool, boy.” He and his wife discussed: […]

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Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There

As the saying goes, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, then you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain. The idea, of course, is that liberalism is a game for the youth and that age brings security, stability and a natural resistance to change. […]

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Social Media Changed How Brands Talk to Us, but Are the Jokes Wearing Thin?

In the comments on a recent TikTok post by RyanAir, an exuberant traveler posted about flying the airline for the first time. In the past, the typical corporate response to this might have been something like, “We’re glad to have you!” or “Thanks for joining us!” Ryan Air went with: “Do you want a medal?” […]

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Young Voters Are Frustrated. They’re Staying Engaged ‘Out of Sheer Self-Defense.’

A Pew Research Center report released this week called Americans’ views of our politics “dismal.” That might be too kind a word. On metric after metric, the report ticked through markers of our persistent pessimism. In 1994, it says, “just 6 percent” of Americans viewed both political parties negatively. That number has now more than […]

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