"Older Americans Are Standing in the Way of Action"

"The ruling gerontocracy won't make it easy for younger Americans to translate their political energy into policy. HuffPost’s Michael Hobbs argued earlier this month that age may be the defining split in our democracy. Older Americans, he noted, are more likely to vote in elections and three times as likely to donate to political campaigns. They also tend to live in smaller rural states, giving them disproportionate influence in the Electoral College and the Senate. 'Without a dramatic increase in immigration or a sudden doubling of the birth rate, this is likely to be a permanent shift,' Hobbs wrote."

At The New Republic, Matt Ford argues that "global warming is every bit as frightening to millennials as the Vietnam War was to boomers."