--- title: How Generation X Could Fix Washington description: How electing Generation X can fix Washington, why everything takes longer at work and more. canonical: https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-29T17:01:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:31.194Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Generation X Could Fix Washington og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Generation X Could Fix Washington twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Generation X Could Fix Washington by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 29, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 29, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Sorry Baby Boomers. To fix Washington, we’ve got to elect Generation X.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/how-to-fix-washington-elect-generation-x-213566) By David L. Rosen in Politico **2\.** [**The data proves what you already know. Everything takes longer at work. Here’s why.**](http://fortune.com/2016/01/28/business-decision-making-project-management/) By Tom Monahan in Fortune **3\.** [**By any measure, Black America is in a deep depression.**](https://thsppl.com/the-great-black-depression-cd0118ab5e5c#.v75vu6dqj) By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. in Those People **4\.** [**Your cable company wants to turn your wireless router into a public hotspot.**](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future%5Ftense/2016/01/28/juniper%5Fresearch%5F1%5Fin%5F3%5Fhome%5Frouters%5Fwill%5Falso%5Fproduce%5Fpublic%5Fwifi%5Fhotspots.html) By Lily Hay Newman in Slate’s Future Tense **5\.** [**The Latino vote should be more than an election year story.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-lozano/unlocking-latino-civic-po%5Fb%5F9087994.html) By Monica Lozano in Huffington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/"},"headline":"How Generation X Could Fix Washington","datePublished":"2016-01-29T17:01:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:31.194Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/","keywords":["Innovation","Work","Race","Washington","WiFi","Latinos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4199636/fix-washington-generation-x/","name":"How Generation X Could Fix Washington"}}]}] ```