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

  • Written by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Why don’t more politicians retire? A medical anthropologist explains how the US could benefit from a mandatory retirement ageTwo-thirds of U.S. senators and nearly half of House lawmakers are eligible for full retirement benefits.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

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...

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