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The party needs a polite way to usher politicians toward retirement.
The Congress member framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.
The 47-year-old Californian has been a member of the House for just over two years.
Gap between the haves and have-nots in Irish society is beginning to be defined generationally as our ageing politicians look ...
Katherine Mangu-Ward Extending the income tax provision in Trump’s 2017 tax cuts was a perfectly reasonable thing to do ...
There are four Democratic contenders, two congressional veterans in their 70s and two congressional newcomers in their 40s.
It is a choice, she said, between the “gerontocracy” represented by the 67-year-old former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the change represented by Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblymember.
For months, I’ve been puzzling over the fact that Britain, where I live, does not have the same gerontocracy problem in its Parliament as the U.S. does in Congress.
It’s been maddening to see outsiders claim that his win in the mayoral primary was a victory for antisemitism.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery speech on Saturday night, told New Yorkers that they have the chance to beat back the Democratic Party’s “gerontocracy” when voters go to the polls ...
For months, I’ve been puzzling over the fact that Britain, where I live, does not have the same gerontocracy problem in its Parliament as the U.S. does in Congress. One answer is surely that we have a ...