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Survey Shows Rise In First-Time Homebuyers

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Housing, Homebuyers, Realtors, Socioeconomics, Mortgage Rates, Home Prices, Race, Class, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Business News

SAN DIEGO — The housing market welcomed a bigger share of first-time buyers and single women this past year, while a majority of sellers resorte...

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Celebrity Spotting at Spinning in Los Angeles

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Exhibition, Fame, Freedom, Inhibition, Paparazzi, Exercise, People Watching, Balance, Celebrity, Spinning, Class, Privacy, Living News
Lisa Guest

When Ms. Celebrity entered the mirrored room, I was stunned. It's only because she's been famous her whole life that most people would recognize her.

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Veterans Day Lesson Plans: How Teachers Can Incorporate Day In Class

lessonplanet.com | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Education, Veterans Day, Veterans Day Teaching Resources, Veterans Day Lesson Plan, Veterans Day Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans, School, Class, Teaching Resources, Classroom, Home News

Veterans Day Lesson Plans: Lesson plans that can help students understand why Veterans Day is an important national holiday. Teacher Resource Guide...

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The Elections You May Not Have Noticed

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, President, Leadership, Elections, Demagogue, Campaign, Endorsement, Chattering Class, Sarah Palin, Republican, Third Party, Conservative, Marriage, Washington, Talk Show Hosts, Social Movements, Class, Rejection, Money, Mayor Bloomberg, Politics, Washington DC, Referendum, Election, Role of Government, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Domestic Partnership, Vote, Wall Street, Gay Marriage, Candidate, Glenn Beck, D.C., Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

I think as people continue to see so much of politics as usual in this town -- partisan bickering and big money buying votes -- they are increasingly likely to vote against whatever represents the old politics for them.

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Dubai's Dazzling New Metro Upsets Nation's Rigid Social Hierarchy

Global Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Dubai, Dubai Class, Dubai Train, Dubai Social Hierarchy, Class, Dubai Metro, Sheikh Mohammed, Huffington Post Dubai Metro, Dubai Metro News, Dubai Metro Upsets Luxury Capital's Social Hierarchy, Dubai Sleeveless Women, Dubai Metro Social Effects, Emirates Airline, World News

By Tom Hundley DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- When his kingdom's roads became so swollen with assorted Mercedes and Hummers that even short trips a...

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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 10.23.2009 | Politics

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
Anis Shivani

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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Stephanopoulos Offers "How To Lose The Presidency In Four Years"

David Dayen | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Opinion, Coverage Subsidies, Community Rating, Medicaid, Dc Establishment, Public Option, George Stephanopoulos, Class, Health Care Reform, Politics News
David Dayen

There's this notion that bloggers and progressives don't care about the poor, but we're not kowtowing to the lunatic moderates who put a price tag above morality except when talking about war.

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Whether Gates or Health Care, Race Matters

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Gates, President Obama, Obama, The Nation, Race, Institutionalized Racism, Obama Town Hall Meetings, Officer Crowley, Town Hall, White Privilege, Racism, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Henry Louis Gates Arrested, African-Americans, Privilege, Health Care, African Americans, Whites, Leonard Zeskind, Pat Buchanan, Barack Obama, Driving While Black, White Nationalism, Lynching, People of Color, Sarah Palin, Sonia Sotomayor, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Erik Ward, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Inequality, Town Hall Meetings, Eric Alterman, Healthcare, Class, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

Discussions of race are not merely a distraction from more important matters; they are essential to understanding political mobilization around many of the significant policy issues facing us today.

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Class and Race Again: Brewskies and Jungle Monkeys

Pam Spaulding | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates, Race, Class, Justin Barrett, Barack Obama, Politics News
Pam Spaulding

The beer summit confirms the role of class in this whole brouhaha. Beer is a social signifier that Gates, Obama, and Crowley are just regular guys shooting the sh*t.

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Back to Black Man 101

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blacks, President Obama, Profiling, Police Brutality, Race, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Terrance Heath

Anger, if you are a minority, is dangerous. If you are a woman, a person of color, gay, etc., your movements must be calm, your voice must be modulated, and your anger must never show.

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A Teachable Moment: Pride and Prejudice

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cambridge Massachusetts, Race, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates, Class, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, Politics News
Denise Dennis

Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.

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Gates and Crowley: Through a Racist, Classist Lens Darkly

Lennard Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, James M. Crowley, Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Skip Gates, Race, Class, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Politics News
Lennard Davis

If we make the assumption that racism was in play in this event, but that Crowley was not necessarily a racist, we might also assume that class and social status was at play as well.

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Disparate Lives: Why the Ricci Decision Won't Affect Racial (In)Equality

Dalton Conley | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ricci v. Destefano, Standardized Testing, Race, Class, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Dalton Conley

If we want to ensure true equality of opportunity, we need to focus on disadvantaged groups long before kids take the SATs or firefighters take an "externally validated" exam.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Capitol Hill, White House, Debate, Family, Children, Scripture, Low Income Families, Legislation, Common Good, Values, Policy Debate, Single Payer, Sin, Health Care, Class, Faith, Private Insurance, Church, Fear, Leaders, Money, Politics, Biblical, Democrat, Congress, Health, Election, Families, Healthcare, Democrats, Moral Issues, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Republicans, Ethics, Partisan Politics, Unions, Medical Care, Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Jeff Muskus

Dissected: What HuffPost Readers Found In The Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform Bill, Public Option, Preventive Care, Health, Health Care Reform, Cost Controls, Reader Response, Kennedy Bill, Health Care, Class, Politics News

The first wave of readers who answered our call to look through the Kennedy health care bill has already found a lot to highlight. As a reminder, ...

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India's "Untouchables" Break Through the Caste System

Ellis Cose | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Untouchables, New Creation, Education, Against the Odds, Martin Macwan, India, Caste System, Pri, Students, Class, Manjula Pradeep, Dalits, Navsarjan, Brahmins, World News
Ellis Cose

Some 60 years after India's "untouchables" gained equal status under the law, many of their fellow citizens still see them as the lowest of the low. But in one boarding school, Dalit kids are treated as equals.

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HelpingYour Son or Daughter Select a College? Use The Genius of Their Instinct, Not a College Advisor!

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: College Students, Raising Children, Living, Focus on the Family, College, University, Graduation, Empowerment, Parenting Tips, Cnn, Class, Students, Parenting Advice, Living News
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger

The best school a college bound student can get into is not necessarily the right school. Shelter-seeking tells you to help your son or daughter pick the right school.

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Success and Luck

Robert H. Frank | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert H. Frank, Luck, Fox News, Accents, Economic Success, Money, Class, Business News
Robert H. Frank

Luck's role in economic success remains oddly controversial. If you don't know where a new acquaintance stands politically, just ask him about this. If he insists luck doesn't matter, he's almost surely a staunch conservative.

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A Scandal More Shameful than AIG and Just as Costly for Taxpayers

Keli Goff | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Education, Poverty, Class Warfare, Dropout Epidemic, Class, High School Dropouts, Business News
Keli Goff

We should be treating America's dropout epidemic with the same measure of urgency, outrage and activism that has spurred us to tackle drunk driving, AIDS Awareness, and even climate change.

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Mis-leading Ladies

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wasilla, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edwin Schlossberg, Politico, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice Vice President, Columbia, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Committee, Class, Sarah Palin, Caroline Kennedy, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Governor Patterson would be wise to give Caroline Kennedy the opportunity to complete the remaining two years of Hillary Clinton's term in the Senate.

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Gender, Politics and Media Redux

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: McCain Advisors, Gender Bias, Gender, Media, Larry Summers, Election 2008, Lesley Jane Seymour, More Magazine, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Campbell Brown, Geraldine Ferraro, Shorenstein Center, Politics, Women and Media, Sexism, Women and Politics, Marie Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Arianna Huffington, Carol Jenkins, Class, Obama's Economic Team, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Last week, New York Women In Communications presented The Spin Room: Gender, Politics & Media in the 2008 Election.

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Barack Obama is Not My President

Sara Catania | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Psychology, Political Psychology, HuffPost Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Analysis, Richard Nixon, Obama Presidency, Barack Obama, Race, US Poverty, Poverty, Class, Politics News
Sara Catania

We do not choose the presidents who are truly ours, who shape our lives and our psyches. They are chosen for us when we are too young to vote.

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Obama's Alleged Elitism

Ken Allen | Posted 09.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Racial Politics, Obama Elitist, Racial Prejudice, Class, Barack Obama, Obama Celebrity, Home News
Ken Allen

He is too educated and yet not deep enough? An answer to the paradoxical arguments used against Obama may lie in our inability to fit him into the stereotypes we use to make sense of the world.

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Rush Limbaughland: Where the Elite Meet to Bleat

Lionel | Posted 05.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Tacky, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Nouveau Riche, Rush Limbaugh Contract, Rush Limbaugh New York Times, Class, Media News
Lionel

Let me be plain, Rush: You came across as a diamond-encrusted, gold-plated jerk. You have a legacy that is nothing short of amazing -- yet you harp on your dough. Show some class, man!

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Jump Ball in Indiana Will Decide It

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Hillary Clinton, Race, Class, Barack Obama, Indiana Primary, George Will, Obama Basketball, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

In Indiana, if Obama grabs the ball and takes it to the hoop, he'll win the nomination and put himself on track to win the presidency. If he doesn't, he better watch out for flying chairs.

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