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Gender, Politics and Media Redux

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.21.2008 | 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 11.07.2008 | 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 08.18.2008 | 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 07.07.2008 | 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 04.23.2008 | 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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Crisscross Applesauce

Beth Kohl | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living

Read More: India, Surrogacy, Class, Age, Gender, Pregnancy, Indian Surrogacy, Living News
Beth Kohl

Meeting Vendana in India, I suddenly feel that I can only now realize how very blessed I am to live in a country that, for the most part, values childhood, girls, literacy, and health care.

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Who's Afraid Of Vampires?

Paul Nair | Posted 03.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Vampire Weekend, Classism, Class, Entertainment News
Paul Nair

Since when is class such a pivotal element of appreciating a group? Who exactly is paying the rent on all those apartments in Williamsburg anyways?

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Can Obama Muster a Counterpunch?

Peter Sacks | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gender Gap, Race Gap, Hillary Clinton, Independents, Class, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Peter Sacks

It's curious indeed when the working poor feel more connected to a former First Lady than to an African American man of working-class origins.

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Poor Like Me

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Raila Odinga, U.S. Economy, Class Warfare, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, Economy, Middle Class, John Edwards, Kenya and Post-Election Violence, Unions, Labor Unions, Class, Working Class, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Like America, Kenya is a country run by rich men, who use tribal differences to first divide their poor people, and them unite them behind false promises of bettering their lives if they vote for change.

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MLK on Class, Conscience, and Corporate Buyouts

Kerry Candaele | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Recession, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Martin Luther King, Class, Mlk, Politics News
Kerry Candaele

As a recession begins to bite hard, class inequality is a question that the country seems willing to confront more forcefully. That discussion should start with a debate about the role of 'private equity' firms in the U.S. economy.

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Race, Gender and Class in Twenty Aught Eight

Ann Medlock | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Multinationals, Progressive Review, Hillary Clinton Iron My Shirt, Gen Y, Class War, Dream Candidate, Gloria Steinem, Republican Oppo Teams, Re-Regulation, First Woman President, Race, Feminism, Injustice, Barack Obama, First Black President, Gender, 08 Election, Conservative Christians, Iron My Shirt, Corporations, Gloria Steinem New York Times, Jim Hightower, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Class, Blue-Collar, Barbara Jordan, Politics News
Ann Medlock

In the blue-collar world, in the world of conservative Christians, and among many of the military, "Iron my shirt" isn't an unreasonable order. It's the way things have been and ever shall be.

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The Black Guy, the Woman, and the Gays

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, 2008, Middle Class, 2008 Presidential Race, John Edwards, 2008 Campaign, Poor, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Rich, Class, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

The biggest threat facing America isn't terrorism or the Chinese. It's the widening class divide. The rich are too rich, the poor too poor, and the only candidate seriously addressing this issue is John Edwards.

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The People's Army

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Poor, Economics, Rich, US History, Class, Economy, Populism, Class Warfare, 1892, Middle Class, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

As in 1892, today in 2007 a weakened union full of religiously and racially segregated sects, and an inflated state of Corporatism, threaten to sever the spinal cord of this fragile democracy.

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Roaches in the World's Most Expensive Dessert

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Working Class, Greed, NYC Restaurants, Gluttony, Serendipity 3, New York City Restaurants Health Department, Haute Chocolate, Wealth, NYC Health Violations Restaurants, Middle Class, Frozen Haute Chocolate, Class, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

This isn't just another story about gluttony. It's a story about the inevitability of cockroaches in a world divided between rich and poor and served by a public sector in a state of bad decay.

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ENDA Will Never Be a Long Term Solution for Anyone, Anyway

Kate Bornstein | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Men's Sexuality, Desire, Enda, Sexual Orientation, Barney Frank, Transgendered, Transsexual, Sexuality and Law, Gay, Race, Sexuality, Gender, Homosexuals, Women's Sexuality, Barney Frank Transsexual, Homosexuality, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Gay Rights, Identity Politics, Sex, Tranny, Discrimination, Class, Politics News
Kate Bornstein

ENDA would have mostly protected people who cleaned up well enough to get a job in the first place: straight-looking people.

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New Research and a Dirty Truth: Read This Before Chasing the Dollar

Tim Ferriss | Posted 09.24.2007 | Living

Read More: Science, New York Times, Class Warfare, Class, Income, Silicon Valley, Living News
Tim Ferriss

There are a few ways to use the currency of time, and awareness of positional economics, to your advantage to beat the Joneses on new terms.

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Labor Day Has Gone to the Dogs

RJ Eskow | Posted 09.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Economics, Class, Sweatshops, Dogs, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Leona Helmsley's dog will get better tax treatment for her unearned wealth than working Americans will get for their hard-earned and stagnating income. And if the GOP had its way, it would pay no taxes at all.

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