Elite

Newt vs. New York

Mitchell L. Moss | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Ny Politics, GOP Debate, Newt Gingrich, Elite, South Carolina Debate, Gop Primary 2012, New York News

Newt Gingrich is running for president by running against New York. That's the essence of the victory speech he gave in South Carolina when he singled out "elites in Washington and New York."

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The Debate Over Elite Schools and Elite Jobs

Robert Teitelman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Ivy League, Robert Teitelman, Elitism, Elite, Employers, Ivy League Schools, Job Recruiting, Business-Recruiting, Lauren Rivera, College Admissions, Elite Schools, Business News

If you accept the research that higher socioeconomic status is the single greatest factor in academic performance, then Rivera is outlining a process that not only bakes in inequality, but deepens it over time.

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Obama and Perry Stop Folking America

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Congress, Debate, Democrat, Affordable Care Act, Job Bill, Obama, Gingrich, Palin, California, Pharma, Folks, Obama Speech, Perry, Obamacare, Presidential Campaign, Shocker, Elite, Folk, George Allen, Republican, Media Criticism, Oil Banker, Oval Office, Grand Wizard, Folking, Comedy News

A quick read of President Obama's 4,000 word jobs speech to Congress on September 8 reveals that he has apparently decided there are no folks in Ame...

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Inside the life of Centurion cardholder Taysha Valez

Ellen Cannon | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: American Express Centurion, Credit Card, Taysha Valez, Black Card, Wealth, Elite, Business News

You probably think the holders of the very best credit cards, such as the American Express Centurion (the "black card"), are all celebrities. But that...

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When Greed Is Good

Carine Fabius | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Greed, Vanity Fair, Valium, American Express, Elite, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Celebrity Reporting, Maximilian Widemann, Corporate Greed, Pop Graffiti, Bernie Madoff, In God We Trust, Status Symbols, Dsk, Arts News

London-based Maximilian Widemann, a pop graffiti artist, channels horror over modern society's mind-bending fascination with money.

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To Be or Not to Be: American Freedom, Exceptionalism and Identity

Robin Koerner | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Philsophy, Liberty, American Exceptionalism, Elite, Ron Paul, Freedom, Foreign, Identity, Liberal, Conservative, Media, USA, 2012, Politics News

There is something fundamentally pro-American about much of the apparently anti-American content published in foreign newspapers. In this way, criticisms of America appeal to, and approve of, American ideals.

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The Elites Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: John McCain, Elite, Navy Seals, Pakistan, Sarah Palin, Elections 2012, Elitism, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

A curious word crept into the dialogue this week, as news outlets fed the voracious public appetite for every last detail of the secret raid that kill...

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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kari Lydersen, Gop, Recovery, Congress, Jobs, The Nation, Republican, Grittv, Unemployment, Public Sector, Private, Mother Jones, Chrystia Freeland, Elite, Tim Fernholtz, Bond, Andy Kroll, Class, American Prospect, Darrell Issa, Pension, Build America Bonds, Wages, Retirement, Public, Recession, Laura Flanders, Devin Nunes, Working in These Times, Paul Ryan, Atlantic Monthly, Class Warfare, Eric Alterman, Inequality, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Meet the new global elite. They're pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more ...

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"The rich guys don't want to pay the tax"

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Wealthy, Taxes, 60 Minutes, Bill Gates Senior, Washington State, Elite, David Stockman, Politics News

Karl Marx? Nancy Pelosi? Bernie Sanders? Nope--Bill Gates Sr. Not that this is surprising that rich people don't want to pay taxes but it's worth list...

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Act like an elite! Vote progressive!

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Film With Me in It, William H. Macy, Tea Party, David Mamet, Elite, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, State and Main, Politics News

I don't consider myself an intellectual. But, apparently, at least by the definition being touted by the right wing in this country, I must be one. If...

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Yalie Perplexed by Anti-Yale Sentiment

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Admissions, Yale University, Chris Coons, Christine O'donnell, Connecticut Senate Race, Harvard, Elite, Meritocracy, Politics News

Americans don't resent upward mobility; they just resent getting so few chances at it. There isn't an obvious solution to this situation. But until we address it, we need to be prepared for a great deal of irritation from a great many people.

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Welcome to the Wonderful World of the High Net-Worth

April Rudin | Posted 05.25.2011

I enjoy and value teaching others how to network amongst the rich and famous. I am just awaiting the day when I can change sides from an offensive position to the defensive side.

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You Might Want to Check Those Frequent Flier Miles

Len Hollie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frequent Flyers, Baggage Fees, Saving Money, Elite, Continental Airlines, United Airlines, New York News

Traditionally, when airlines have merged, frequent flier miles were carried over allowing customers to select among an increased number of flights and destinations.

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UK Goes Forward To The Past! A Cabinet That Looks Like... Eton (No Blacks, Gays or Jews Need Apply)

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mrs. Mopps, Cleaning Ladies, Elite, Cabinet, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ethnic Diversity, Prep Schools, Toffs, Eton, Privilege, Gender Diversity, Colonialism, The Dashed Natives Are Restless!, Zulus, World News

Fortunately for this true-blue Tory son of the landed gentry, David Cameron has been able to pick a cabinet that looks like his alma-mater -- Britain's most exclusive, elite, boys-only private school Eton.

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Not A Problem, A Pribble

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: John Edwards, Racism, Problem, Sex Tape, Definitions, Liberalism, Words, Language, Status, Elite, Pribble, Dictionary, Privilege, Healthy Living News

Some problems, a friend recently suggested, are not in fact problems at all. They are pribbles -- problems of a privileged existence.

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Empire of the Sunset

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ugly American, Empire, Fear, Military, America, National Security, Elite, Failed State, War, Military Bases, Disaster, Panopticon, Ruling Elite, Imperialism, Power, Politics, Politics News, Politics News

Sometimes, I really miss America -- or at least the idea of it. You know: that can-do spirit, streets paved with gold, champion of the tired and poor,...

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Being Gifted Means You Get All the Gifts

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gifted-and-Talented-Programs, Racism, Bronx High School of Science, Elite, Segregation, New York News

I think justifying a fundamentally unequal distribution of resources is the primary purpose of most school "gifted programs."

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The Ultra-Elite Versus The Poor

Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, US Poverty, Elite, Middle Class, Hollywood, Politics News

The more I "succeed" in life, the more I'm repulsed by the one-tenth of one percent "above" me and the more I long for the values, ethics, and unseen valor of the "unwashed masses."

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antivilai, Al-Qaada, Lithuania, Cia, Interrogation, Dalia Grybauskaite, Horses, Taliban, Llc, Rendition, Riding Academy, Vilnius, Nato, Human Rights, Prison, Elite, Elite Llc, Black Site, Cia Torture Prison, Horse Academy, Horseback Riding, Stable, Interrogation Tactics, Torture, World News

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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Wonder Why Middle America Doesn't Trust Hollywood Liberals? Three Words: Weinstein and Polanski

Keli Goff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elite, Liberals, Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Entertainment News

When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them.

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Don't Let 'Elites' Lock the Doors to the Library

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philadelphia, Elite, Benjamin Franklin, Libraries, Politics News

Public libraries, like schools or the fire department, are not luxuries. The public library is more than just our soul. It is our lifeblood.

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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A House in the Hamptons?: Historic Vacation Spots of the Black Elite

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Theodore Roosevelt, Obama Martha's Vineyard, Moet & Chandon, Obama Vacation, Noel Harkin, Rockefellers, Rene Hunter, Obama, Henessey, African-American History, Vanderbilt, Lynn Whitfield, FREDI WASHINGTON, Villa Lewaro, South Hampton, Hamptons, Michael MC COLLOM, Newport, Elite, Astors, Irvington-on-Hudson, African Americans, Yachts, Boston, Earl Graves, Norma Jean Darden, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Dr. Norman Cotton, Susan Taylor, Baltimore, Diana Vreeland, Dr. Chester Redhead, Country House, Sag Harbor, New York, New York City, Thomas Downing, Steven Robinson, George T. Downing, Golf, Ronald K. Brown, Resort, Michelle Patterson, Evidence Dance Company, Madame C. J. Walker, Ruling Elite, Isabel Washington Powell, Roosevelt, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, A'Lelia Walker, New York News

Some African-Americans, seemingly born under an auspicious star, apparently have always gathered to share their leisure pursuits with others who were similarly favored.

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Newport: Yesterday's Seaside Paradise, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Summer Resort, Clinton & Rusell, Obama Vacation, Architecture, Newport Casino, Rodger Williams, Summer Cottage, High-Society, Henry Hobson Richardson, Eileen Slocum, Brown Family, Eileen S. S. Gillespie, Vanderbilts, Aristocrats, Ancestors, Elite, Newport, Stanford White, Mrs. William Watts Sherman, Sam Houston and General George Tecumseh Sherman, Astors, Obama Family, Jackie Kennedy, Entertaining, Ralph Francis Julian Stoner. The 5th Baron Camoys of Stoner, Ogden Codman. Harry Lehr, Style News

The Obamas aren't coming to Newport to vacation, but one hundred or even fifty years ago they would have. An idyllic spot, it's about to become the subject of several new books.

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Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Non-Apology, President Obama, Um, Obama, Linguist, Refugee, Language Police, Wurzelbacher, Grammar Police, Fascist, Bailout, Joe Sixpack, Elite, Socialist, Geoffrey Nunberg, Katrina, Joe, American Dialect Society, Looting, Evacuee, Populism, Elitist, Omnigooglization, I Fought the Law, Joe Blow, Phonetosphere, Socialism, J Edgar Hoover, Joe the Plumber, Volvo Driving, Npr, Lingua Branda, Barack Obama, Interview, Joe Schmo, Loot, Progressive, New Foundation, Talking Right, Chris Weigant, Liberal, Legacy Asset, The Years of Talking Dangerously, Under a Bus, Fresh Air, Pluto, Berkeley School of Information, Under the Bus, Hiawatha, Nunberg, L-Word, Media News

Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.

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