From left: Current U.S. president Joe Biden; former U.S. president Donald Trump; Senator Dianne Feinstein; and Senator Mitch McConnell.

Why don’t more politicians retire? A medical anthropologist explains how the US could benefit from a mandatory retirement age

by The Conversation August 19, 2024

written by The Conversation August 19, 2024

By Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are hardly the only examples of politicians who work well into their golden years. Members of the baby-boom generation – Americans born between 1946 and 1964 – are the most numerous in th...

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