Millennial momentum

About every eight decades, coincident with the most stressful and perilous events in U.S. history --—the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the Great Depression and World War II -- a new, positive, accomplished, and group-oriented "civic generation" emerges to change the course of history and remake America. The Millennial Generation (born 1982–2003) is America's newest civic generation. In their 2008 book, Millennial Makeover, Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais made a prescient argument that the Millennial Generation would change American politics for good. Later that year, a huge surge of…