class politics
"'The Iron Lady' locates class as an important and largely ignored element of Mrs. Thatcher's struggle."
Writes Peggy Noonan: The leftist intelligentsia of her day, which claimed loyalty to and identification with the poor and marginalized, was shot thro…
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class politics
A tax policy juxtaposition.
1. "Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who's running against former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson for Wisconsin's open Senate seat, argued in her addre…
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class politics
"Identity politics, of a different brand from Trump’s, is also gaining strength among progressives."
"In some cases, it comes with an aversion toward, even contempt for, their fellow-Americans who are white and sinking. Abstract sympathy with th…
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class politics
"The fact that so many informed, sophisticated Americans failed to see Donald Trump coming, and then kept writing him off, is... a sign of a democracy in which no center holds."
"Most of his critics are too reasonable to fathom his fury-driven campaign. Many don’t know a single Trump supporter. But to fight Trump you hav…
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class politics
It's not just Phil Mickelson — plenty of high-income athletes want out of California taxes.
Mickelson was just the one who was PR-deaf enough to let us know how he feels. Why do you think Tiger Woods lives in Florida? In November, voters in …
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class politics
"Working-class students struggle with 'composite masculinity,' study finds."
"Combine the 'chiselled out of rock' body of actor Ryan Reynolds, the intellectual prowess of writer Christopher Hitchens and the 'f…
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class politics
"The first signs of modern 'proto-hippies' emerged in fin de siècle Europe. Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose..."
"... as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as Der Wandervogel (…
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class politics
"Why Elitists Hate" the Brad Paisley/LL Cool J song "Accidental Racist."
According to novelist Will Shetterly (one of six commentators on the much-maligned recording): The song’s first sin is it’s earnest. There’s no iron…
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class politics
"Now, what we’re doing, I want to be clear, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned."
"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
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class politics
"It don't get no better" says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka referring to Elizabeth Warren.
Do you like the rhetorical use of the double negative? I can't get no satisfaction from some rich and powerful guy deploying the old double negat…
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class politics
"The vocabulary of class warfare may have begun on the left—a very socialist left..."
"... but in mainstream American politics it didn’t gain much traction until the Republicans took it up." Framing the struggle as cultural a…
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"I may be a part of the LGBTQ community but being a gay man doesn't even tell me what it's like to be a trans woman of color in that same community, let alone an undocumented mother of four or a disabled veteran or displaced autoworker."
Said Pete Buttigieg at Las Vegas Human Rights Campaign Gala at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas the other day. I got the quote from the full transcript he…
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class politics
"One thing those of us who are pro-union need to ask ourselves is why so few Americans belong to unions presently."
"It is facile, lazy, and simply wrong to blame the anti-union efforts of Reagan, Walker, the Kochs, Whole Foods, Walmart and the like. If you sa…
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class politics
A tax policy juxtaposition.
1. "Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who's running against former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson for Wisconsin's open Senate seat, argued in her addre…
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class politics
Oh, come on. It's just take out. It's not as if the NYT advised us to hire a personal chef.
I wish I had some proof that journalism is now tailored only to an audience rich enough to afford the paywall. pic.twitter.com/uV0k0EFq49 — Gladstone…
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"I knew just what one of my graduate students meant when I asked her how millennial feminists saw Hillary and she said 'a white lady.'"
"A white woman herself, she wasn’t referring to the colour of Hillary’s skin, or even her racial politics, but rather what was perceived as her …
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class politics
It's not just Phil Mickelson — plenty of high-income athletes want out of California taxes.
Mickelson was just the one who was PR-deaf enough to let us know how he feels. Why do you think Tiger Woods lives in Florida? In November, voters in …
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class politics
"This is Obama chortling with Jimmy Fallon about lower-class people."
"Do we believe, even for a second... that if Obama had been busted for marijuana, under the laws that he condones, would his life have been bett…
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class politics
3-D printed food.
This seems incredibly dumb, unless you are hyper-focused on the shape of food — enough to ignore that it's all processed from already-highly-pr…
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class politics
Obama in Kansas: "It's great to be back in the state of Texas."
He was there to give his big speech, doubling down on class politics. (Growing — "gaping" — disparity in income "gives lie to the pro…
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