The 2020 election is tearing retirement communities apart. So I was talking to a source we’ll call my “Mom” (not her real name), and she mentioned that the election-related tension within her North Carolina retirement community has reached a boiling point. Bipartisan dinner parties have become untenable; she was recently mocked for wearing a mask to…

Turn tonight’s presidential debate into a drinking game — you’ll likely need it. Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be squaring off for the first time this election; we can only pray it won’t devolve into 90 minutes of two ancient white dudes shaking their fists at the sky. Watch it live on a split-screen— starting at 9 p.m. EDT — while raising a glass…

The kidnapping and murder of 20-year-old Rosimar Rodríguez has given new urgency to Puerto Rico’s epidemic of gender-based violence. Hundreds took to the street on Monday to protest the government’s lack of action on this crisis. As I reported for GEN back in June, more than 150 women have been killed by their current or former intimate partners in…

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