New York Times (April 27)
“For years now, people have been talking about the insulated world of the top 1 percent of Americans, but the top 20 percent of the income distribution is also steadily separating itself—by geography and by education as well as by income.” Their isolation from the lower 80 percent “is changing the American social order and the American political system, creating a self-perpetuating class at the top, which is ever more difficult to break into.”
Tags: Class, Education, Geography, Income distribution, Political system, Self-perpetuating, Social order, U.S.
USA Today (March 7)
“If the Ukraine crisis were a poker game – and to a large degree it is – you wouldn’t want to be dealt the American hand, and you certainly wouldn’t want to overplay it in the false hope of a quick win. Russian President Vladimir Putin has carefully leveraged forces of history, geography and politics in ways that ensure there is no short-term victory to be had.”
