Ad Policy
Skip to content
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Donate
Log In
Podcasts
Books & The Arts
War in Ukraine
Climate Justice
Politics
World
Culture
Events
Shop
Health Care
Current Issue
Newsletters
Subscribe
Search
Facebook
Twitter
Email
Toggle Menu
Log In
fb
tw
mail
msg
wa
sms
Events
Politics
World
Climate
Activism
Culture
Podcasts
Shop
Subscribe
Current Issue
Newsletters
Donate
Log In
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Log In
Email *
Password *
Remember Me
Forgot Your Password?
Log In
New to
The Nation
?
Subscribe
Print subscriber?
Activate
your online access
Senior citizens
Senior citizens news and analysis from The Nation
July 19, 2018
The Worst Way to Pay for Family Leave
A plan for paid family leave put forward by Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump would steal from the elderly.
Michelle Chen
May 29, 2018
By 2030, 1 in 3 US Prisoners Will Be Over 50
The criminal-justice system is failing to deal with our aging prison population in a humane way.
Michelle Chen
January 19, 2018
Home-Care Workers Clocking 24-Hour Shifts Are Being Paid for Only 13 Hours
A New York State rule is standing in the way of home-care workers’ earning their rightful pay, and care recipients’ getting the attention they deserve.
Michelle Chen
September 29, 2017
When Growing Old Means Living in Your Car, Working in an Amazon Warehouse
An interview with
Nomadland
author Jessica Bruder on America’s new, precarious old age.
Astra Taylor
October 5, 2016
Ursula Le Guin Has Stopped Writing Fiction—but We Need Her More Than Ever
The author on sexism, aging, and the radical possibilities of imaginative story telling.
Zoë Carpenter
GET UNLIMITED DIGITAL ACCESS FOR LESS THAN $3 A MONTH!
Subscribe
June 3, 2016
Obama Flips on Social Security—a Big Win for Bernie Sanders
The president’s call to strengthen the program is a change of heart, and a breathtaking salute to the Vermont senator.
William Greider
March 7, 2016
Why Seniors—Not CEOs—Deserve a Raise
Social Security is the most powerful tool available to lift people out of poverty.
Elizabeth Warren
October 27, 2015
What’s It Like Growing Old in the New Economy?
Danish architect Deane Simpson explores this vexing question in his book
Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society.
Matthew Shen Goodman
August 10, 2015
We Need to Fight to Protect Medicare
Some powerful people want to gut the fifty-year-old program.
NationAction
April 14, 2015
How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
Sophia Rosenfeld
Prev
1
2
3
Next
x