I first joined AARP when I was 50. I would joke that I was in the kindergarden of senior citizenship and I was looking forward to the discussion of ideas and opinions on social challenge and change across all age spectra, health advances and advice, articles on music, science and art, legislation on several matters but articles that emphasized seniors' quesitons and perspectives from rural, suburban and urban areas across the country. What a disappointment. It didn't happen much. I was confused and I dropped out of membership. AARP junk mailed me several times every year, as they do and as others pointed out. Every once in a while I would rejoin. My junk mail would increase astronomically as would my spam and ads robocalls. Was there an increase in In-depth articles? No. They decreased. I'm thankful for the few writers who obviously put their expertise into a piece. Maybe two a year now. Who is running the magazine publication? The responsibility lies with editors who I assume are Robert Jacobson, Claire McIntosh. The magazine for the most part is filled with ads, ads, ads, fear mongering run amuck, all the negatives about aging hyper emphasized. Only Safe positives are published, like interviewing celebrities, exercising for good health. Heaven forbid AARP discuss anything in depth and possibly disturbing or as meaningful as social justice, genocide in the world, starvation, poverty in America, inequality in education, white supremacy, the neo-nazi culture. A-political? No. AARP in my opinion has worn thin the wording apolitical while it has avoided controversy and courted senility soothing, highly paid corporate sponsors who have disposable income to dither away in the stock market unlike most Americans, employed, unemployed or retired, struggling in an economy to which the stock market apparently has little connection. I doubt you will see a truly apolitical, in depth piece in AARP magazine on this appalling and astonishing state of American financial chaos, nor will they speak to why they didn't publish before hand on the who and what lead us to it and why they didn't protest vigorously against it, but they will likely join the finger pointing culture so prevalent, so purulent and so toxic to our unity and healing. AARP had a past with a healthy, vital, vigorous heart and mind and soul dedicated to its participants contributing to the advancement of the people participating as a group, the group contributing to the communities they were a part of, and the communities contributing to the nation. Something vital is missing now and has been missing for years. I don't know where it's gone. I'm going to spend my time searching for where it is, not where it use to be. I'm not renewing my membership.