The true problem we are experiencing today is not a case of the pleebs versus the aristocracy but is in fact a form of generational warfare.
Javon Johnson | Posted 05.02.2012
As we reflect on the 20th anniversary of one of the most significant human events in recent history, many are asking if we are better off now than just two decades before. While I understand the impetus for this kind of thinking, the question is far too simplistic.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.27.2012
It's getting harder for poor Americans to lift themselves up. Don't believe it? The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has some pretty compelling evide...
Babble.com | Posted 04.11.2012
I'm well aware that my judging the pageant moms is hypocritical. After all, I watch the show. But is it classist?
Stacia L. Brown | Posted 05.02.2012
Colored TV is a new PostBourgie feature that looks at television series through the lenses of race and class. Up first: "Parenthood" and "Revenge."
June Carbone | Posted 04.17.2012
Moreover, as the wages of college graduates have stagnated over the last decade, they have done so even more for women than for men. Today's college graduates recognize that they need each other to realize the good life and they are very careful in the search for the right partner.
Sabrina Stevens | Posted 03.20.2012
I'm definitely not naive enough to discount the role of profit, self-interest, etc., in others' motivations, but I believe that most people want what's best for others, even if we disagree on what it takes for that to happen.
Darren Hutchinson | Posted 02.26.2012
With the median net worth of our Congress at $913,000, many members have been insulated from the harmful impact of the economic downturn. This fact, however, lacks a lot of information that could put this data into a more informative context.
Small Kitchen College | Posted 01.18.2012
For the best foods to bring into the classroom, just take a nostalgic look into your childhood lunchbox for some inspiration. The results are delicious, scholastic and timeless.
Craig Regester | Posted 01.16.2012
Why us "outsiders" are here in Detroit matters -- today and always. But for those of us who have chosen to move here -- to Detroit of all places! -- let's pursue a deeper understanding of our motivations.
Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012
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AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.24.2011
WASHINGTON — It's the one major health expense for which nearly all Americans are uninsured. The dilemma of paying for long-term care is likely...
Posted 11.22.2011
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has shelved a financially troubled long-term care insuranc...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.14.2011
WASHINGTON — Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insura...
Grace Li | Posted 09.24.2011
Dear Mrs. Morales, Although I can speak only for myself, I can honestly say that the people you've impacted through the past two years are truly a h...
Jeffrey Stout | Posted 07.26.2011
Cornel West's recent criticisms of President Obama have made news for the wrong reasons. The story is all about West. It shouldn't be.
June Carbone | Posted 07.20.2011
Marriage is increasingly becoming a marker of class -- the delayed marriages of the middle class produce steadily lower divorce rates, very few non-marital births, and substantial resources to invest in a falling number of children.
David Finkle | Posted 06.07.2011
Those Upstairs Downstairs purveyors have woven their now chilling, now heart-warming, now belly-laughs-inducing intrigues into a tapestry worthy of hanging next to the first series.
Robert Scheer | Posted 06.05.2011
The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy.
Hack College | Posted 06.03.2011
Some of us are slow typists, others have moments where we tune out the teacher. So why limit our class notes to what we as individuals are capable of writing down?
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011
In today's bizarro world, too many of the privileged -- sensitive to the slightest slights -- believe that they should never have to feel anything but pride and self-satisfaction about their station in life.
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
Frances McDormand injects the right mix of dignity and desperation into the lead role of Margie in David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Childhood asthma is more common among Blacks and Puerto Ricans than among Whites.
Cody Brotter | Posted 05.25.2011
What should we expect this semester? A campus visit from Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A. himself to Agganis Arena? An angry rebuttal from Boston University alumnus Bill O'Reilly?
Cereal is the optimal college breakfast food.
Jeremy White | Posted 05.04.2012