Introducing GEN

Today we’re launching a new Medium publication about politics, power, and culture

Hello out there! And welcome to GEN, a new publication we created to help you (and ourselves) better understand the powerful forces reshaping our world.

You say it like this: /jen/. As in GENesis. GENerate. GENuine. GENius. (Fine, that last one doesn’t really work, pronunciation-wise, but let’s not get hung up on that.) Also, and this part is just bonus, “gen” is an obscure British slang word for inside-ish information, e.g. “I’ve got the gen on that.”

So, what is GEN? It is a bold, lively, and modern publication built around the thematic pillars of politics, power, and culture, and it’s situated squarely at the heart of the national conversation. GEN is about the biggest stories of the day, not the fringes, and we are by no means trying to do everything here. We are sense-makers, not news breakers. We are focused on stories that illuminate the many ways in which our world is changing, especially stories that relate to the shifting gears of power. And while we are nonpartisan — you will find a wide range of perspectives in GEN — we are interested in progress and the things that impede it.

We are launching with a collection of stories that represent the full range of the world according to GEN. Lexi Pandell…