Generations

In a Los Angeles suburb, multigenerational families like the Benns found affordable housing and a deep sense of connection. After the devastating fires, many wonder whether they’ll be able to rebuild what they’ve lost.

Sharon Liese and Catherine Hoffman’s short film follows three close-knit generations through the process of changing their last name and unravelling some family history.

It’s not so easy to hold on to things and hand them down. Families splinter, things get broken.

My great-grandfather was one of the most eminent figures in American chess. But his passion didn’t quite run in the family.

The Postal Service: this generation is simply not mailing letters, owing to “electronic mail” and “still learning how to read.”

Decades after her mother was killed, Regina Alexander reached out to the son of the people who did it.

In “70 Over 70,” we learn what binds—and separates—the old and the young.

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

Please enjoy both screaming and hearing “Get off the phone!” every day of your pubescent life.

The nineteen-year-old behind HBO Max’s “Generation,” something of a “Girls” for Gen Z, helps her fathers and co-creators avoid punctuating texts with periods and using boring-ass millennial tropes like the phrase “boring-ass.”

And why we insist on blaming them for it.