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The U.S. Is an Outlier With Its Gerontocracy

Other democracies have moved to a new generation of leaders. Will U.S. voters get the chance to elect one?

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Luke Johnson
Jul 18, 2022
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President Joe Biden's age is becoming a theme of his foreign trips. Peter Baker of the New York Times wrote that during Biden's European trip in June, G-7 leaders like German Chancellor Olaf Scholz a…

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