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'Issue of honesty': Conservative outraged after GOP lawmaker found living in dementia home
2 weeks, 3 days ago

'Issue of honesty': Conservative outraged after GOP lawmaker found living in dementia home

Raw Story  

Fort Worth-based Rep. Kay Granger continuing to serve on Congressional payroll while secretly living in a dementia care facility is a massive disgrace, wrote right-leaning Never Trump commentator Charlie Sykes for The Atlantic — and it speaks to a broader problem of American politics becoming increasingly dominated by people of advanced age. This follows a presidential cycle that, for the …

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"Sclerotic gerontocracy": Lawmaker's struggle with dementia revives criticism of elderly politicians
2 weeks, 3 days ago

"Sclerotic gerontocracy": Lawmaker's struggle with dementia revives criticism of elderly politicians

Salon  

Long-standing criticism of public officials for refusing to step down and pass the torch to a younger generation resurfaced this weekend after it was revealed that 81-year-old Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas., has been residing for months at an assisted living facility and struggling with dementia, despite still holding office. Granger’s son later told The Dallas Morning News that his mother …

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The triumph of the gerontocracy
3 weeks, 2 days ago

The triumph of the gerontocracy

Politico  

The triumph of the gerontocracy Rep. Gerry Connolly speaks to reporters outside of a House Oversight Committee hearing on May 16, 2023. — Johnson’s spending nightmare grows: GOP leaders are now considering a plan B to avert a shutdown deadline on Friday as conservatives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and JD Vance have excoriated the original spending plan, which included several …

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'Backroom sabotage': Nancy Pelosi accused of hijacking AOC over festering feud
3 weeks, 2 days ago

'Backroom sabotage': Nancy Pelosi accused of hijacking AOC over festering feud

Raw Story  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing likely defeat in her candidacy to lead the Democratic minority on the House Oversight Committee, after previously building momentum for the role — because Rep. Nancy Pelosi has been working behind the scenes to thwart it. This "backroom sabotage" is not a healthy development for Democrats, wrote Alexander Sammon for Slate — and it's a …

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At 84, Bangladesh’s Prof Yunus is older than Biden. Who are other aged world leaders?
5 months ago

At 84, Bangladesh’s Prof Yunus is older than Biden. Who are other aged world leaders?

Firstpost  

There was so much hullabaloo around Joe Biden’s age that the 81-year-old withdrew from the US presidential race. And the world’s oldest head of state is 91 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus smiles as he arrives to appear before a labour court in Dhaka, Bangladesh. AP Muhammad Yunus took oath as chief advisor of Bangladesh’s caretaker government on Thursday, …

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‘Underwhelming Indian genomics research, and gatekeeping’
9 months, 1 week ago

‘Underwhelming Indian genomics research, and gatekeeping’

The Hindu  

On March 9, 2024, Dr. Vinod Scaria wrote an article in science page of The Hindu urging for a strong regulatory crackdown to prevent Indian biological samples from being analyzed by foreign commercial entities. However, this article goes over and beyond patient advocacy, and wants a gatekeeping layer to prevent international commercial offerings from accessing any Indian genomics data. Here, …

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Column: In praise of gerontocracy
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: In praise of gerontocracy

LA Times  

The cry is heard that America has become a “gerontocracy.” That’s supposed to be bad, it’s argued, because our superannuated political leadership is out of touch with the electorate and blocking younger and more vigorous and intellectually vibrant leaders from taking their hour upon the stage. For decades and decades we’ve lived in a society that has devalued what it …

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