Obama: Republicans’ Refusal to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy Is What “Binds Their Party Together.” February 22, 2013. Includes audio of interview with Sharpton.
Weekly Address: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester. By Barack Obama. February 23, 2013.
Marco Rubio’s State of the Union Response. February 23, 2013.
As Country Club Republicans Link Up With the Democratic Ruling Class, Millions of Voters Are Orphaned. By Angelo Codevilla. February 21, 2013.
Saving the American Idea. By Paul Ryan. February 19, 2013.
Life After Blue: The Middle Class Will Beat The Seven Trolls. By Walter Russell Mead. January 31, 2013.
Another Road: The Blue Elites Are Wrong. By Walter Russell Mead. January 29, 2013.
Futuristic Blues. By Walter Russell Mead. January 24, 2013.
The New Power Class Who Will Profit From Obama’s Second Term. By Joel Kotkin. January 20, 2013.
The Unseen Class War That Could Decide the Presidential Election. By Joel Kotkin. January 5, 2013.
The Rise of Tory America. By Joel Kotkin. March 25, 2013.
America Hates Crony Capitalism. By Joshua M. Brown. February 14, 2013.
Beware of the New Elites. By Scott Rasmussen. March 20, 2013. With “America’s New Mandarins,” by Megan McArdle.
The Rise of the New Global Plutocratic Elite and the Crisis of the Middle Class. February 14, 2013. Chrystia Freeland, 6 articles; WRM, “American
Dreams, American Resentments”; and many
assorted pieces by various authors on this topic.
Jeremy Lin, Superstar Economics, and the Culture of Aspiration. February 19, 2013. Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats, p. 140; many assorted
pieces by various authors on this topic.
China, Technology and the U.S. Middle Class. By Chrystia Freeland. February 15, 2013.
Technology, the Economy and Pool Cleaning. By Chrystia Freeland. February 26, 2013.
America’s Middle Class Goes Global. By Chrystia Freeland. February 27, 2013.
The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent. By Chrystia Freeland. February 27, 2013.
The Political Clout of the Superrich. By Chrystia Freeland. March 1, 2013.
A Republican Message for Wall Street. By Peggy Noonan. March 1, 2013.
Republicans and Their Faulty Moral Arithmetic. By Arthur Brooks. March 3, 2013.
The Republican Path Ahead. By Peter Wehner. March 3, 2013.
Obama’s Pelosi II Strategy. March 5, 2013.
Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address: An Uncompromising Defense of Liberalism. January 21, 2013.
Lessons Conservatives Need to Learn. By Peggy Noonan. January 25, 2013.
How Conservatives See Liberals. By Michael Lind. March 22, 2013.
Private Sector Parasites. By Michael Lind. March 22, 2013.
Elites Close Ranks Around Ivy League Intermarriage. By Walter Russell Mead. April 7, 2013
Articles by various authors on the meaning of Obama’s Second Inaugural Address and its conflict with Republican visions. All posted on January 26, 2013.
