"We have a sclerotic gerontocracy," posted then-48-year-old Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) back in 2024. Gerontocracy means rule ...

A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an “oldigarchy,” in which wealth and power are hoarded by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The notion that America's elected officials are too old isn't new. A proposal for age limits for congresspeople has widespread ...

Dr. Moyn is a professor at Yale and the author of “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de ...

Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth―and What to Do About It, by Samuel Moyn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pp., $29.18) We are living in the midst of what writer and ...

A New York Times opinion piece by Yale professor Samuel Moyn arguing that America’s real problem is ‘gerontocracy’ has drawn sharp criticism from conservative commentators, who accuse it of stoking ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Democratic Party has been criticized for maintaining a gerontocracy ...

For the past two years, Washington has been under the unified control of the Democratic Party. It has also been under the control of a narrow demographic: longtime recipients of Social Security. The ...

As he celebrated his 80th birthday in late November, President Joe Biden was taking a victory lap for his party’s stronger-than-predicted performance in the midterm elections. Buoyed by the steady ...

With many leaders showing their age recently, a previously somewhat obscure word, “gerontocracy,” meaning “a government ruled by the elderly,” is popping up everywhere. President Biden , frontrunner ...