Three elderly Democrats have already died in this congressional session. If your favorite NPR show disappears from the ...

There are four Democratic contenders, two congressional veterans in their 70s and two congressional newcomers in their 40s.

The Congress member framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.

Experts USA TODAY spoke with said they’re unlikely to know whether Biden’s baton pass to Harris marked an end to the gerontocracy until after the 2024 election.

The 47-year-old Californian has been a member of the House for just over two years.

Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party.. Going back through history, it’s ...

The Upside of Gerontocracy Representative Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) attends a House Rules Committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's plan for extensive tax cuts, on Capitol Hill, in ...

Experts USA TODAY spoke with said they’re unlikely to know whether Biden’s baton pass to Harris marked an end to the gerontocracy until after the 2024 election.

The Democratic gerontocracy has allowed the bypassing of the system, as Barack Obama discouraged Joe Biden and effectively installed Hillary Clinton as the nominee in 2016, ...

"We have a sclerotic gerontocracy," posted 48-year-old Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) in December. Khanna's outburst on X was provoked by the revelation that an 81-year-old Rep. Kay Granger (R ...

Gerontocracy transcends government as a full-scale social phenomenon, in which older people accumulate power of different kinds, and then retain it. This form of power is both old and new.

The questions raised by Ginsberg, Feinstein and McConnell were reflective of a calcified gerontocracy in nearly all branches of government. The current House, with an average age of 58, ...