The black and white headshots in the University of Delaware Yearbook of 1965 are almost identical.

Combed hair, jacket, skinny tie.

A cheery Joe Biden fits neatly among the fellows in his cohort or any other college class from the previous generation.

Before the decade was out, those yearbook photos would chronicle a cultural revolution.

The hair, the clothes, the poses, would reflect a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating

mode of living, as Hillary Rodham called it, in her 1969 commencement address.

The defiance of her generation has convulsed America ever since.

Born before the end of World War II, Joe Biden isn't technically a baby boomer.

But neither was Jimmy Hendricks, who was just a week younger.

When the economist first profiled Biden in 1987, an influential pollster had picked him as the candidate to channel the aspirations

of the generation forged in the political heat of the 1960s.

Three decades later, his showdown with Donald Trump looks like the Boomer's last stand.

With 51 days to go, this is checks and balance. I'm John Frido, the Economist's US editor and this is a podcast about the 2020 elections.

Each week we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.

Today, is the boomer era over?

Baby boomers have dominated politics since Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992. But the demographics are shifting. They stopped being the largest

generation of Americans last year. This is bad news for the boomer and chief. Younger voters are more educated, more diverse and more likely to vote Democrat.

Is America on the verge of the next youth quake?

In this episode we'll crunch the... on the verge of the next youth quake.

In this episode, we'll crunch the demographics,

look back on how boomers have changed American politics,

and forward to who's replacing them. With me as ever to make sense of all of this are Charlotte Howard, the

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