From In These Times, liberal snobs and Wall Street bankers: A third way between America’s cliched class narratives comes from an unlikely source — former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum. Stop feeling sorry for the middle class — they’re doing just fine. A mess on the ladder of success: The new divide in America is between a smaller mobile class and one that can’t quite pack up and go. The Fracturing of Pennsylvania: In Amwell Township, Pa., the dividing line is between those who are getting rich and those who are paying the price. Josh Rothman on an unexpected cost of income inequality: self-deception. Relative poverty: William Bole on the indignity of gross inequality. Income inequality is accelerating fastest at the top — who are the 0.1%? Radical solutions to economic inequality: If only Americans today were as open-minded about leveling the playing field as we were 100 years ago. Plutocracy or democracy? How bad policies brought us new Gilded Age. The .000063% Election: Ari Berman on how the politics of the super rich became American politics. Britt Peterson on why it matters that our politicians are rich.
