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May 17, 2018 · Steven Brill, author of "Tailspin," excerpts his book on how his generation of Baby Boomers broke America and how we can get back on track. According to ‘Tailspin’ author Steven Brill TIME Logo
Jun 28, 2018 · An autopsy of the American dream. A conversation with Tailspin author Steven Brill. Over the past 50 years, lots of things have changed in the United States. Here are a few examples. 1) A child ...
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That death grip could hold at least another four and perhaps eight years in the White House. Gibney and other critics of the baby boom generation argue that the huge cohort that came of age in the prosperous years after World War II spent much of their time in power cutting their own taxes, ensuring that giant entitlement programs are protected — a...
The first boomer president, Bill Clinton, did raise taxes in the early 1990s and briefly created government surpluses after all the charts and warnings and televised lectures from Ross Perot. But he also suffered an ugly impeachment over personal misbehavior and efforts to cover it up. And progressives blame him for expanding the penal state, cutti...
Following Obama — whom many Gen Xers claim as one of their own — boomers helped elect another boomer, Donald Trump, partly on his promises to restore manufacturing greatness while also not touching any entitlements for those at or nearing retirement. Trump essentially junked the entire approach of the tea party movement in favor of far greater spen...
Many baby boomers defend the generation’s contributions, citing advances in gender equality, the protest movement against the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement (even though most landmark civil and voting rights laws were passed when the median boomer was around 12 years old). Some also argue that it’s not fair to look at political failures ...
The current crop of Democratic candidates is dominated by boomers and near-boomers including Biden, Warren and Sanders who are one, two and three in nearly every national and state poll. Biden has largely based his campaign around taking another shot at the Obama approach that sought to address major structural problems like climate change, entitle...
Into all this comes Buttigieg, running as a millennial alternative to all the older candidates as well as more of a centrist who wants to take on structural problems left by the boomers but not in ways that send deficits and debt into the stratosphere. “You have a different sense of urgency around these issues if you’re expecting in your lifetime t...
Generation X, those born between 1965 and 1980, may never find themselves with a president to call their own, even if they lay claim to Obama, who was born in 1961. But that doesn’t mean the generation won’t have a significant role to play in future elections and political debates that increasingly pit baby boomers bent on protecting their investme...
May 16, 2018 · TIME magazine cover story – How Baby Boomers Broke America. by Sabrina I. Pacifici on May 16, 2018. Steven Brill – How My Generation Broke America [ Brill is the author of Tailspin, from which this article is adapted, out this month from Alfred A. Knopf.] This appears in the May 28, 2018 issue of TIME: “Lately, most Americans, regardless ...
May 27, 2018 · Steven Brill's new book on the rise of modern inequality is important, but to fix it we need a bigger picture ... “How Baby Boomers Broke America.” But SDT has a lot to tell us in response to ...
Jun 5, 2018 · Well, not quite. From the looks of “Tailspin,” he really spent the next two years combing his backlist. Brill, a lawyer who became a journalist and entrepreneur, draws quite a bit here on his ...
