The millennial generation, Americans born between 1980 and 2005, will have a tremendous influence. Three times as large as the “baby boomers,” this group will literally change the world. Peter Singer explains where they get their news, how they think, and how they are already wielding influence. Singer is co-author of “D.C.’s New Guard: What Does the Next Generation of American Leaders Think?”
![450 tonnes of waste are piled up on a slip road of the A104 motorway, close to a site of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Villepinte, near Paris, France, March 19, 2024.](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-03-19T154032Z_1810090328_RC22P6ABU041_RTRMADP_3_OLYMPICS-2024-WASTE-1.jpg?quality=75&w=500)
Cities & Communities
Olympic transformation of metropolitan cities—for better or for worse
Commentary
Podcast@ Brookings Podcast: Millennials Will Change the World
March 18, 2011