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What Makes a Millennial?

The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."

The Kids Aren’t Alright

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.
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That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.

The 2008 election sparked an outburst of brightness and positivity across pop culture. Now hindsight — and cringe — is setting in.

Why Generational Thinking Isn't Bull

Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.
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End the Generation Wars

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
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It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
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Historicizing Dystopia: Suburban Fantastic Media and White Millennial Childhood

On the nostalgic and technophobic motives of the recent boom in suburban fantastic media.
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Defining the ’90s Music Canon

Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?

The NYT Says We’re Forgetting About the Holocaust

History suggests otherwise.
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Heritage 2000

Some years wield such power that you must comply with them.
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All Dolled Up

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.
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Is It Useful to Analyze Politics in Terms of Generations?

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.
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My Generation

Anthem for a forgotten cohort.
Nicole Collazo-Santiago leads a chant outside the Goldman Sachs Building.

Life Can Be Different: 10 Years Ago, Occupy Wall Street Changed the World

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

Which Generation Controls the Senate?

A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.
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The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
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Welcome to the Radical Suburbs

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?

The Strange Story of the Forever 1980s

Why the makers of today's popular culture are still so obsessed with the Reagan era.
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Your Generational Identity Is a Lie

You are not Gen X. You are not a Millennial. Unless you are a Baby Boomer, you are nothing.

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