Age
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News
America’s Gerontocracy Problem Goes Far Beyond the President
Whether or not Joe Biden persists in his run for president, America’s gerontocratic crisis will keep on worsening. But high-profile…
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Health
Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors
The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums…
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News
Weakening Regulatory Agencies Will Be a Key Legacy of the Roberts Court
Two rulings this week by the Republican-appointed majority add to its steady pursuit of enfeebling the ability of the administrative…
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Travel
New York City Has 186,000 Fewer Children and Teens Than It Did in 2020
New census numbers show the steepest drop in the city’s youngest age group in at least a decade as many…
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Health
C.D.C. Scales Back Recommendations for R.S.V. Vaccine
Fewer Americans age 60 to 74 should receive the shots, the agency concluded, citing reduced risks and a possible neurological…
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Health
Biden Officials Pushed to Remove Age Limits for Trans Surgery, Documents Show
Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age…
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News
Age Is on the Ballot in 2024, at Least in North Dakota
A vote on Tuesday on a proposed age limit for members of Congress is a rare chance to find out…
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News
Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a…
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News
Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?
Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.
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Magazine
For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By
The Unstoppables is a series about people whose ambition is undimmed by time. Below, the writer Maxine Hong Kingston explains,…