The pragmatic and skeptical politics of millennials

THERE WAS a time, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when everything about the baby boomers — their cultural identity, their sex lives, their voting patterns — was chewed over in the public prints and on television. It became so dreary an exercise that Bob McGilvray, the I’ve-seen-everything news editor in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal, grew impatient with this genre of reporting. “The only story on the baby boomers that I want to read,” he said,