Meet the Millennials

The front page of the Saturday New York Times had a picture of an earnest young man over the headline: "At 26, Baby-Faced Mayor Takes Over an Aging Pittsburg."

If the New Politics Institute were writing the headline it might have been: "Meet the Millennials."

Luke Ravenstahl is in the front lip cohort of the Millennial Generation, the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s. This generation is as big as the Baby Boom and promises to have as big an impact on American society and politics.

Luke (age 26) is to the Millennials, as Bill Clinton (age 60) is the Boomers. Was any Boomer running a major city at age 26?

Peter Leyden