| 单词 | plutocrat |
| 例句 | Despite the liver spots and the purplish swags under his eyes, he at last appeared the cruelly handsome plutocrat, though somewhat reduced. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The sprawling Tudor monstrosity in the plutocrats’ retreat of Tuxedo Park, New York, had been built at the turn of the century by a wealthy banker and abandoned amid the grief of a family tragedy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A genial plutocrat, Shaw fancies himself a man of the people. | 'Tower Heist': Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy in ?Tower Heist? - Review 2011-11-03T20:29:01Z The museum could point to the great collections of art in major museums around the world and argue: Is this not the largesse of plutocrats, robber barons and colonialists? An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate His chief commodity was himself, the populist plutocrat with the global brand, only now his stage was one provided by WrestleMania. ‘Game to do it all’: From TV to WWE, Trump the showman set the stage for Trump the candidate 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s probably healthy, especially in a winner-take-all era of enormous superstars and plutocrats towering over the rest of us, that we reserve a bit of resentment for people who are incredibly rich or famous. Back off U2: Criticizing the band for not playing Paris immediately after the terror attacks is absurd 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Never content with the last tax cut or the last burst of deregulation, American plutocrats keep pushing for more. What Keeps America Divided? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It still uses a warping machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci and has become a popular stop for vacationing plutocrats like Jeff Bezos. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Lindsay Lohan is here too, as a plutocrat's pampered daughter who has a naked threesome with her mother and Machete. Machete Review: Sharp, Bloody Fun 2010-09-03T10:25:00Z "My Joy" appears to suggest that all the tyranny and brutality of the 20th century have left Russia, in the era of Putin and the plutocrats, stupefied and morally denuded. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z The plutocrats would drag us back to the Gilded Age; the theocrats to the Salem witch trials. GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be nice to find a definitive explanation for the potty-mouthed plutocrat’s behavior? If only Hunter S. Thompson could have lived to take on this election 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A history of labor unions and of the collusion among plutocrats, politicos and the judiciary to curtail workers’ freedoms and rights, the play was something of a scandal in its day. Review: Metropolitan Playhouse Tackles Labor History in ‘Injunction Granted’ 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The Park Avenue charity doyenne or the plutocrat’s wife? Peter Davis to Introduce a Society Magazine 2012-02-29T23:17:03Z She doesn't flaunt herself on yachts with the world's celebrity plutocrats. Jennifer Aniston's success rests on our thinking of her as a loser | David Cox 2010-03-22T10:45:00Z Striving to maximize his profits, Ismay, in effect, sinks his ship, filled with British and American plutocrats who are served by a heroic crew. ‘The Sea Wolf’ and ‘Titanic’: Fascism on the High Seas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z As a star of “The Simpsons,” Harry Shearer provides the voices of dozens of characters on that Fox animated comedy, from the nefarious plutocrat Montgomery Burns to Homer’s gentle next-door neighbor, Ned Flanders. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Simpsons' Voice Actor Speaks Out About Negotiations With Fox 2011-10-07T16:32:05Z When the war instead continued, Adolf Hitler again succeeded in persuading the Germans that the responsibility for prolonging it lay with the English “plutocrats and slaveholders”. Fate and furies 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Posada also satirised corrupt politicians and plutocrats as calaveras, or skeletons, a device picked up by Rivera and other painters that remains embedded in Mexican culture. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z Finally, a new restaurant in Tribeca that doesn’t exclusively cater to plutocrats. Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z And he links Romney to those forces and to the plutocrats of Wall Street, while drawing implicit contrasts between himself and one of the richest men ever to seek the presidency. Santorum and Romney fight their own class war in Michigan 2012-02-27T05:08:00Z And of course, if billionaires hadn’t multiplied like rabbits in this era, he wouldn’t have had the necessary pool of plutocrats to choose from. The real face of Washington (and America): It can happen here — in fact, it did 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Where medieval art was communal, Renaissance art was selfish – the plaything of plutocrats. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z By contrast, the 1 percent and the other global plutocrats and oligarchs are planning for the future and what they see to be an inevitable calamity. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The revolutionary message was hopeful and seductive: peace, bread, power to the masses and not to the plutocrats, radical redistribution of wealth, the transformation of social relations. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Such vanity is a particularly heavy burden for a flashy plutocrat to carry in monochromatically liberal Manhattan. The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z You can write a greetings card using someone's back as a table so, if you've got to find somewhere for the budget, better the back of a poor person than some plutocrat's nobbly wad-holder. Is scrapping workers' rights the Tories' idea of spreading privilege? 2012-10-13T23:06:35Z Nations and plutocrats alike spent money to spread the gospel. “Steve Jobs,” portrait of the artist as tech guru: What we lose when we worship at the altar of commerce 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Gilded Age plutocrats hunted fox and summered in these hills. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z His drawings of hungry children and homeless men mingle with caricatures of popes, plutocrats and presidents into an angry tableau of violence and injustice. Movie Review: ‘For No Good Reason’ Looks at Ralph Steadman and His Work 2014-04-24T23:19:54Z Is Mitt Romney the most cynical plutocrat ever, wooing middle-class voters but really interested only in helping his rich friends? Richard Nelson Tweaks ‘Sorry’ at the Public for Election Day 2012-11-05T23:29:19Z It was given in a sepulchral rented mansion in north London’s eerie “Millionaire’s Row” district of Bishopswood Road, notorious for deserted megahouses purchased by absentee plutocrat investors. Men behaving badly: why cinema's great hellraisers were a breed apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z But, if this becomes a trend, soon only plutocrats will be permitted to report on the plutocracy. Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords 2014-04-22T16:03:00Z Which is what the plutocrats are worried about. Plutocrat bosses to employees: Vote Romney or else 2012-10-17T16:49:00Z Donald Trump has no interest in classical music, yet many of the plutocrats who support domestic performing-arts institutions welcome his policies. Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z While progressives have long argued that allowing more money to flow into politics empowers plutocrats to ignore the will of the people, Ziegler shows that its effects have been more “ambiguous” than that. Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Auth often drew on the standard visual fare of cartoons, such as bloated plutocrats, politicians with exaggerated features and elephants in pinstripe suits to represent Republicans. Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who satirized political figures, dies at 72 How could George W. Bush be a plutocrat if he couldn’t pronounce “plutocrat”? Dear Mitt, you walk funny 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z But Trump has torn off their decorous, civic-republican covers and agendas and exposed them as the myopic and destructive maneuverings of plutocrats. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The recent voter intimidation frenzy points to the plutocrats’ pesky problem of basic math: They are outnumbered. Plutocrat bosses to employees: Vote Romney or else 2012-10-17T16:49:00Z How are plutocrats and elites across the political spectrum working from the same playbook as they prepare for “the Event”. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z There’s a healthy population of plutocrats along the shore of Lake Michigan. Perspective | America’s rich people could have saved local journalism — and perhaps democracy. They refused. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z The subtext here, however, is troubling: even as he escapes the acrid spectre of the factory, its plutocrat owner has pursued the subjugated worker, hauling him back to his vile machines to do his bidding. The Hard Sell: Compare The Market 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z But it uses music as character and catalyst, a vital force uniting artist and fan, hostage and guerrilla, plutocrat and revolutionary. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z They and Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn were the plutocrats of a huge American industry. Saul Zaentz: What Does a Producer Do, Anyway? 2014-01-09T17:04:41Z Up on the screen, Robert Pattinson's hollow-eyed young plutocrat is being ferried across a creepy metaphysical Manhattan, all but entombed in his white limousine. Cannes diary: day 10 2012-05-25T15:25:25Z Socialites and plutocrats in the Hamptons are the object of scorn and worse in the post-credit-collapse nighttime soap “Revenge.” Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z He is a lonely, prickly and arrogant plutocrat who resembles a middle-aged spoilt child. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Trump is also an authoritarian plutocrat who appears to be using the presidency as a means to enrich himself and closest allies as well as family members. Psychiatrist Bandy Lee: “We have an obligation to speak about Donald Trump’s mental health issues … our survival as a species may be at stake” 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z He is similarly unsparing about the plutocrats and Wall Street luminaries of his day, who he argued had destroyed the innate generosity of Americans and replaced it with greed and selfishness. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z A jar of plastic cockroaches, and the steady march of plutocrats, suggested that something unusual was happening at the Park Avenue Armory on Monday night. Book Party Anxiety, Writ Large 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z In 1990, six members of the Winshaw family, lavishly immoral plutocrats who made the Murdochs look like the Waltons, were brutally murdered. Review: ‘What a Carve Up!’ Is Wonderful. But Is It Theater? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Sign you’re a corrupt plutocrat: You make policy decisions involving corporations in which you have financial ties. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It took place in what was supposed to be her safe space: a closed-door gathering of her fellow plutocrats. Will Ivanka Trump Be the Most Powerful First Daughter in History? 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Starring Kathryn Hunter as a plutocrat who goes broke, the production adds in fragments from other Shakespeare plays, plus a sonnet. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z I see it happening in London, São Paulo, Paris, along with the rise of the plutocrats. Styles Q + A: Artist Eli Sudbrack’s Work Will Be on View in Soho This Week 2014-05-02T23:33:59Z Philanthropic achievements made him the beau ideal for plutocrats as renaissance men. The Debt King 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Talk of Mega Millions—a circus on the theme of getting some bread—dominates chatter at the corner store, where it drowns out notice of newspaper headlines about plutocrats and plunder. Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z One is tempted to say that since plutocrats have been pulling political levers since the start of the American Republic, the current concentration of ideology, money and power is not a uniquely dangerous development. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Rupert Murdoch: Compassionate, moral media plutocrat whose big heart is only matched by the size of his pauses when undergoing questioning. Who would you cast in phone hacking: the movie? 2011-07-22T08:52:50Z The race is sponsored by a flamboyant British plutocrat, voiced by Eddie Izzard, who wishes to promote his new brand of eco-friendly fuel. Cars 2 ? review 2011-07-21T21:00:01Z Any day now you will be reading about the plutocrats cruising into Venice for the Biennale. Did Peter Doig paint this landscape on LSD? 2013-05-17T15:10:37Z Even the most generous plutocrats, she said, are fickle and unreliable funding sources. Seattle visual artists paint an ambivalent picture of the future — but are determined to survive 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Can starry plutocrats fantasize about armed robbery in good taste? Beyoncé, Jay Z redefine ‘guilty pleasure’ on this tour His long con made Mr. DeMeyer’s tale something of a parable of our age, a dark fantasy for millions of people who serve the plutocrat class and dream of getting even. The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Now, it seems, Diet Coke is the elixir of soft-bodied plutocrats desperate to shed their shady pasts and, possibly, a few pounds. The Decline and Fall of Diet Coke and the Power Generation That Loved It 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The Republican populists and plutocrats may be defeated at the polls, but that won’t stop their continued success. What Keeps America Divided? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z This is a principle danger of subcontracting space to billionaire plutocrats, whose ambitions and interests might be inconsistent with society's broader public purpose. You can join Jeff Bezos on his 11-minute space trip for just $2.8 million! 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Atlas Shrugged: Part II, the second part of a trilogy based on Ayn Rand's paean to plutocrats, limped into cinemas this month amid stinking reviews but Fox News gamely reported that "public interest remains high". DreamWorks boss leads Hollywood push to bring Obama a fairytale ending 2012-10-28T18:39:02Z Now he's a global plutocrat mega-celebrity and adorable egomaniac, whose hi-tech weaponry has cowed America's enemies into submission. Film review: Iron Man 2 2010-04-29T22:45:00Z For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring “change agents” who believe they are helping but are actually making things worse, it’s time for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling dilemma. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In a world where the bombproof bunker has replaced the Tesla as the hot status symbol for young Silicon Valley plutocrats, everyone, it seems, is a “prepper.” The Most Vexing Unanswered Questions of 2017 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Roeg cast Gene Hackman as the plutocrat whose wealth has somehow transmuted in his mind, through an anti-alchemy of greed and paranoia, into an unending fear that everyone wants to take his money. Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Perhaps we need a lawsuit or two to force a lot of plutocrats to divest their portfolios. Gene takes the ‘corporations are people’ idea to a logical end: President Kraft Foods While legitimately pointing a finger at bankers, plutocrats, Rupert Murdoch and others for their resistance to federal regulations and control of information, "#ReGeneration" foolishly finds American kids woefully unprepared to challenge the status quo. '#ReGeneration': Film on citizen powerlessness lacks power 2012-05-03T20:18:07Z Laborers struggle in a dank, cavernous underground world to support a civilization of plutocrats who live in deco luxury atop elegant, organically shaped skyscrapers. Dvdsdave Kehr: It?s Overlords vs. Lower Depths in a Future City 2010-11-20T19:15:00Z Instead, today’s plutocrats invest in what was the low art of their childhoods — vintage comic books, Norman Rockwell illustrations and rock-star guitars — or in no art, like the Keanes. Review: Tim Burton Paints by Numbers in 'Big Eyes' 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Sign you’re a really corrupt plutocrat: ...and you swipe Sweet n’ Low packets from restaurants. Style Invitational Week 1299: OK, hivemind! A contest with new Scrabble words 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Many of our cherished arts organizations were created by Gilded Age plutocrats, yet are no longer tethered to the Darwinian social views of their originators. Perspective | With the planet in peril, arts groups can no longer afford the Koch brothers’ money 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Now the insufferable tech plutocrat is king and can be found on all kinds of television shows, including “Veep,” which begins a third season on HBO right after “Silicon Valley.” The TV Watch: Nerds Get Their Due on ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Veep’ 2014-04-04T00:00:25Z If you remember the 2012 election, which I certainly do, you know that Democrats portrayed Romney as a plutocrat whose policies would hurt ordinary Americans while enriching the wealthy. The road from Mitt Romney to MAGA | Paul Krugman 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Who will stand up for the poor plutocrats who own Major League Baseball? Column: Here's how the billionaire owner of the Oakland A's is planning to rip off two cities at once 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The plutocrats can use their wealth to buy mass media, to fund think tanks, and to handsomely reward those social influences who promote their messages. A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “Tucker is a giant, and the most powerful voice against idiotic wars and an economy that placed plutocrats over workers,” Mr. Vance said in a text message. Tucker Carlson’s Surprise Exit Stuns People in Donald Trump’s Orbit 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The Republican Party, after a long history of unfailing support for plutocrats, has become the party favored by a majority of non-college-educated working-class voters and rural Americans. Republicans have won over the working-class vote | Horsey cartoon 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z America is sick with extreme wealth and income inequality, where the moneyed classes and plutocrats literally do not live in the same society as everyone else. Connecting Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump: Tied together by a mutual worship of corrupt power 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The dirty little secret about how plutocrats finance the charitable deductions that get their names on distinguished institutions is only one aspect of Griffin’s gift that should concern all Americans. Column: With a $300-million donation to Harvard, a hedge fund billionaire shows why we need a wealth tax 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The plutocrats would rule without any checks on their power. What Marjorie Taylor Greene's "safe space" for conservatives would look like 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Yet they want to give more money to the plutocrats and other gangster capitalists by imposing a national sales tax that will disproportionately impact poor and working class people. Sorry, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy is not a “good man” 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z They are both plutocrats who want to give the corporatocracy and monied classes even more control over American society. Trump dupes the media — with DeSantis' help 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z There is something desperately boring about despots and plutocrats. Opinion | Not another column about Elon Musk 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z None of this is to suggest that the philanthropic donations of Griffin or any other American plutocrats aren’t sincere and heartfelt. Column: With a $300-million donation to Harvard, a hedge fund billionaire shows why we need a wealth tax 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z As recently as Halloween, this boy plutocrat with the shaggy bro-’fro was a freshly minted paragon of greed in the service of good. Opinion | How long till people stop falling for ‘founder’ hype? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z And the public, throughout history, has awakened to the class war waged by the oligarchs and plutocrats and revolted. Rail strike bill: Both sides do it — wage relentless war against the working class, that is 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z It is, the magazine declared, “the elixir of soft-bodied plutocrats desperate to shed their shady pasts and, possibly, a few pounds.” Elon Musk and the hardcore cult of Diet Coke 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall in public estimation is related to our culture’s habit of compiling lists ranking any and all things — the best electric toothbrushes, the highest-yielding savings accounts, the richest plutocrats. Column: Crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried didn't lose a $16-billion fortune. His 'fortune' was never real 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z This is the eponymous island, whose humble folk live apart from a class of snooty plutocrats. Review | Constellation revives ‘Once on This Island’ to joyful effect 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z He is a helicopter-riding plutocrat, and he needs to show he understands the needs of normal voters. Opinion | Rishi Sunak’s route to economic growth 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Real American populism began with working everyday people, mostly farmers, in the fight of their lives against railroad tycoons, banker plutocrats and land-speculating moguls. Opinion | Rubio’s fake populism is no match for real history 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z White Christian fascists and corporate plutocrats will forge a ruling coalition with near-total dominion over American life and society. Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Political scientists and other researchers have shown that Congress is largely unresponsive to the policy demands of working class and poor people and instead takes its directives from the plutocrat class and large corporations. The fall of Roe v. Wade will only embolden the fascists: How will America respond? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In the U.S. and around the world, the plutocrat class has enriched themselves even more through the human misery and desperation caused by the pandemic. Dear Donald Trump: No, America is definitely not OK. It's your fault — and ours too 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The pandemic has also empowered plutocrats and powerful corporations to further enrich themselves, literally at the expense of the public. Behind the mask: How racism shaped attitudes on the pandemic 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Although the population is nearly united in favor of independence from Iraq, voters are increasingly disillusioned with the region’s two entrenched main political parties and their plutocrat leaders. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z In particular, as the GOP has become a full-on anti-democratic party, why has it also remained the party of plutocrats and the enemy of any policy that might help its many working-class supporters? GOP, party of plutocrats 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But Berggruen acknowledges that his wealth makes him an imperfect messenger: People will simply assume that he’s just another plutocrat looking to avoid higher taxes. How the ‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z As the ultrawealthy have multiplied, some Americans have drifted toward a sort of billionaire Gnosticism, a sense that we live in a fallen world run by a demonic group of plutocrats. How Many Billionaires Are There, Anyway? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Russia’s young plutocrats had more money than Croesus, more money than God, money that could buy anything they wanted. Roman Abramovich and the End of Soccer’s Oligarch Era 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z They can be, and often are, members of the elite: plutocrats, powerful politicians and influential pundits. The trap of ‘folk economics’ 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z The answer, presumably, is that the GOP caters to plutocrats, even as it attacks “elites,” because it thinks it can. GOP, party of plutocrats 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z George’s father, Edward VII, had enjoyed a colorful but dissolute, champagne-fueled existence amid a fast set of plutocrats and married mistresses. Review | George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z He then risked a court-martial by repeatedly attacking the manipulation of American power by its plutocrats. The imperialist villian-turned-hero who may have saved America from its first fascist coup 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z What a dichotomy between these plutocrats and the working-class populists they duped into doing their bidding on Jan. 6. Opinion | The false prophets who inspired the violence on Jan. 6 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Rather than buying it himself, her plutocrat father had somehow persuaded its owner, Oxford City Council, to rent it to him for a minimal sum in return for renovating the property. Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? The downfall of a favourite daughter 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z After all, being nice to plutocrats and crony capitalists can yield tangible rewards, not just in the form of campaign contributions but also in the form of personal enrichment. GOP, party of plutocrats 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z And he worried that the laborers, incensed by the selfishness of America's plutocrats, would rise up in a "violent, costly, and perhaps bloody revolution." The Great Inheritors: How three families shielded their fortunes from taxes for generations 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Gangster capitalists and other plutocrats have used the economic costs associated with the forever wars to further gut the social safety net and America's infrastructure as a way of enriching themselves. CNN's Peter Bergen on the "dotted line" from Osama bin Laden to Donald Trump 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z But the most important lesson from that tragic day may come from deconstructing how plutocrats and trust-fund babies deployed propaganda campaigns to push that bloodthirsty mob up the Capitol steps. Opinion | The false prophets who inspired the violence on Jan. 6 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The United States is now in a 21st-century Gilded Age, where plutocrats and corporations dominate politics and society as a whole, behaving like social parasites with no sense of obligation to others. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In that way the plutocrats and kleptocrats — both wealthy individuals and families adn the largest corporations — are free riders, protected by the government and other elites as being "too big to fail." Our massively unfair tax system: How do the ultra-rich get away with it? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It's a tension between the goals of the plutocrats — the richest people, big business, and the organizations they create to influence policy — and the ideas that Republicans need to articulate to attract ordinary voters. Republicans want "18 more months of chaos" — followed by the end of democracy 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Naturally, plutocrats and their congressional minions don't want to raise the Social Security cap. Under Joe Biden, the national security budget remains the third rail of US politics 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z While "essential workers" were literally worked to death for low wages and the working and middle classes were devastated, the country and the world's plutocrats became even more wealthy and powerful. This plague next time: Public health scholar Nicholas Christakis on the pandemic's harsh lessons 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z These plutocrats and kleptocrats are expanding their financial dynasties while many Americans — perhaps almost a majority — exist in a state of permanent economic precarity. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z To others, it will have the feel of yet another step toward some grim vision of soccer’s future, where the global game becomes the plaything of oligarchs and plutocrats and nation states. The Game of Tomorrow, Today 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Instead of pursuing a New Deal, however, Trump governed like a plutocrat. Opinion | How populism could help Democrats blunt the GOP in midterms 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z But both barge through the contradictions of being both populists and plutocrats. Opinion | The New Trump? Easy. It’s Tucker. 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Nor did the Russian plutocrat or the deputy prime minister of a Gulf state or the activist investor or the owner of a ranch the size of Los Angeles. Billionaires, Bluster and the Super League That Wasn’t 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z But plutocrats with human rights issues are fine. European Super League: backlash builds against breakaway plan – live! 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z I prefer it to the "one percent" or "plutocrats," which is vague and imprecise language. Upper-class traitor Chuck Collins on how "wealth hoarding" will create more Trumps 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Hence the party's eternal drive to reduce taxes for the plutocrats, whether income taxes, inheritance taxes or allowing all sorts of tax shelters in quite a few U.S. states. Why U.S. Republicans are now adopting Putin-style "managed" democracy 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z "Job creators" and "too big to fail" are convenient shorthand to describe rent-seeking behavior and the ways many of the country's plutocrats and other members of the elite classes are economic and social parasites. Legal scholar Jennifer Taub on Trump as a symptom of America's massive inequality 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Because they are social Darwinists and plutocrats with no care or concern for the American people, Republicans in the House and Senate unanimously opposed the ARP. Legendary social scientist Robert Putnam: We may be on the cusp of a new Progressive era 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The truncated “Democrat,” on the other hand, “rhymes with rat, bureaucrat, kleptocrat, plutocrat,” Cornfield said. What’s in an adjective? ‘Democrat Party’ label on the rise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z As local plutocrat though not quite billionaire Nick Hanauer forecast back in 2014: “You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples.” The billionaires’ tax may be absurd, but that makes it right at home for these times 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It means boldly advancing the needs of average people over the plutocrats and oligarchs, of the white working class as well as Black and Latino people. Why Biden can’t govern from the center 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z The plutocrats who are tied to the fossil fuel industry are engaging in a new climate war—this time to prevent meaningful action. Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z It does not belong to the corporations and the plutocrats that currently control them. Robert Reich on the profitability of racism 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z As they always do, the plutocrats and leaders of the corporate kleptocracy are profiting from the insanity and destruction caused by the Age of Trump and his pandemic. American madhouse at a turning point: Is our nation finally ready to rejoin reality? 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z They suggest we pay attention to the Koch Network, the chamber of commerce, the "plutocrats" who are driving the Republican economic agenda. Lessons from Trump's America 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In this conversation, Nader explains how the plutocrats and the CEO class are benefiting from the coronavirus pandemic and why America's mainstream media and other voices have largely been silent, if not complicit. Ralph Nader's election wisdom: "In the swing states, you have to vote for Joe Biden" 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Far-right ideologues who care more about the Supreme Court than anything else are understandably pleased with Trump, as are plutocrats who care only about not paying taxes. The media could still screw up the election. Here's what they need to do instead 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The image of the ultra-rich American paying zero taxes may be baked into national mythology, but almost all American plutocrats pay something. Column: Let's put Donald Trump's $750 annual tax payment in perspective 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z In other words, what is notable is how much power and influence America’s plutocrats have and how little they seem to be using it. Opinion | America’s Tech Billionaires Could Help Protect the Election. If They Wanted To. 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The anarchy enjoyed by plutocrats, science deniers, bigots and nihilists is hardly the liberty envisioned in a civil society. Racial healing: What really makes America beautiful 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It would be the only way to fight efforts to wreck unions, gut voting rights, tie the hands of regulators and empower plutocrats by voiding laws limiting money’s role in politics. Opinion | The Supreme Court struggle is about democracy 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Our plutocrat masters concluded, "So this is what happens when you let the working class and minorities go to college. They study things of no value to us, and they learn to hate us." Student debt and the end of the liberal arts dream 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z States like Washington banned private armies after plutocrats started using them to quell labor unrest. Perspective | Gun laws were meant to ban private militants. Now, our hands are tied. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z To maintain their political power and enact their unpopular agenda, the tiny band of plutocrats has stoked the fires of white identity and sabotaged democracy. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Mitt Romney was depicted as a rapacious plutocrat who personally embodied the policies that were eroding middle-class industrial jobs in the Midwest. Conventions Can Boost the Incumbent. Did It Work This Time? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z To disguise this takeover, the newly minted plutocrats bought up almost all the remaining commercial banks, turning them into mere vehicles for the auction scheme. Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z It would turn Capitol Hill into more of a hive for plutocrats than it is now by making it harder for those with modest resources to run for and stay on Capitol Hill. Congress members think $600 is too much to pay workers. Here's what the lawmakers get 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z How are you making sense of the language from Trump, his Republican followers, the plutocrats and other gangster capitalists and their propagandists that people should be willing to sacrifice their lives for "the economy"? Mike Davis on the global crisis: "This moment is not a tunnel with a bright light at the end" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The Represent.us website is a gold mine of good ideas, videos and evidence that plutocrats can be defeated if we get together. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z It also concedes to those on the radical right exactly what they want: the mantle of representing “the people” against “the elites” — even when they, like Trump, defend the privileged and the plutocrats. Opinion | Trump needs to be called out for his huckster brand of populism 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Trump and his allies in the media, the churches, the Republican Party, the plutocrats and others are using the coronavirus virus to create a full-on death cult. America the "pitiful": Fintan O'Toole on how our once-great nation devolved into "Trumpland" 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Both groups, with different justifications, are to be sacrificed or culled in the plutocrats' social-Darwinist project. What does Trump mean by "war president"? He's sending his own followers out to die 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z How are the anti-lockdown protests in Michigan and elsewhere connected to the history of the Tea Party movement and its network of right-wing plutocrats and other backers? Soldiers of the boogaloo: Is the far right really planning a new civil war — and how bad will it be? 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Second, the plutocrats remade the Republican Party into something unique in U.S. history. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The Trumps act like cartoon plutocrats straight out of a Thomas Nast drawing. Opinion | Trump vowed never to forget the ‘forgotten men and women.’ He just did. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z These "populist" protests are also being summoned by Trump's right-wing news media propaganda machine, plutocrats and Christian nationalist leaders. Trump's fake protest movement: Authoritarian stagecraft meets white privilege 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z As a class, the gangster capitalist plutocrats view the coronavirus pandemic as another opportunity to make money from human misery and expand their power over America and the world. Are the super-rich eager for the "end times"? Author Mark O'Connell on pandemic and apocalypse 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z How do plutocrats and other financial and economic elites make sense of a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic? "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins on the coronavirus and our global "death economy" 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z As described by Yale University's Jacob Hacker and University of California, Berkeley's Paul Pierson in their important new book, Let Them Eat Tweets, the plutocrats invented "plutocratic populism," making strident, alarmist appeals to white identity. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z According to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, between 18 March and 22 April the wealth of America’s plutocrats grew 10.5%. 'Heads we win, tails you lose': how America's rich have turned pandemic into profit 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z One is a white supremacist and the other is a plutocrat. Dr. Jonathan Metzl: How coronavirus reveals America's extreme social inequality 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z He explains how disasters are an opportunity for right-wing extremists, as well as plutocrats and oligarchs, to advance their antisocial agenda — and how such people plan to survive the apocalypse. Are the super-rich eager for the "end times"? Author Mark O'Connell on pandemic and apocalypse 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Moreover, the plutocrat class finds ways to profit from human misery. "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins on the coronavirus and our global "death economy" 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z His two closest advisers, Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, are a white supremacist and real-estate plutocrat, respectively, with no expertise in public health, viral biology or epidemiology. Historian David Perry: After Trump, we'll need a truth and reconciliation commission 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z But would he rein in fellow plutocrats such as the Koch brothers, whose investment protocols he largely shares? Dealing with Bernie doubt: My letter to a skeptical friend 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z “I ain’t a socialist. I’m not a plutocrat. I’m a Democrat, and proud of it.” Bernie Sanders decisively wins Nevada caucuses 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z On the debate stage as well as the campaign trail, they castigate him as an out-of-touch plutocrat unfairly injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the political system to manipulate democracy. ‘It’s going to take a rich guy to beat Trump’: Why some Democrats back Bloomberg 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z A craven plutocrat buys a city’s newspaper, lays off its seasoned journalists and repurposes it as propaganda for his political campaign — and the public eats it up. Review: 'Human Interest Story' at the Fountain Theatre grapples with today's crises 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Rather than kiss up to Corona, the plutocrat basically said that Manhattan will always be where the action is, get over it. Opinion | Why is Mike Bloomberg joining the debate? Because he might win it. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “It’s going to be a chance to finally bring scrutiny to Bloomberg’s record as a Republican plutocrat,” she said. Bloomberg’s debate debut set to shake up Democratic primary 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Hedge fund owners, plutocrat donors to the cause, Etonians and newspaper proprietors cast themselves as enemies of the elite. Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z As the US writer Anand Giridharadas does not tire of emphasizing, the “plutocrats’ phony religion” of philanthropy is no substitute for the state. The high priests of plutocracy all meet at Davos. What good can come from that? | Cas Mudde 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z This is a real challenge given that so much of the world’s media is owned by plutocrats with a material stake in fraudulence. Another rightwing strongman has won – but there is hope for a different future | Priyamvada Gopal 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z But we also must not forget that plutocrats aren’t only after wealth; they also want control. British voters are terrified of US companies privatizing the NHS. They should be | Astra Taylor 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z This is especially true for the plutocrats and mega-corporations such as Amazon, which depend on consumer income. Author Chris Hedges on Trump, the Democrats and the dying American empire 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z What’s more, Sanders and another of the six, Elizabeth Warren, have raised buckets of money without courting plutocrats. Opinion | Democrats’ Baffling 2020 Mess 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z A noble plutocrat would at least try to allow his reporters to do their jobs, thereby gesturing towards a belief in the value of truth. Why is Michael Bloomberg silencing the press? Because it's his plaything | Hamilton Nolan 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In a sense, getting into a relationship like this is the essence of why so many plutocrats give money to politicians — a chance to be a player, to joke around at the highest levels. The Strangely Happy Envoy: Sondland Jokes, and Spreads Heat 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z As Warren and Sanders have stepped up their attacks, a host of plutocrats have gone public with their anger at all this billionaire-bashing, and some are already coming out for Bloomberg. Boo-hoo billionaires: why America's super-wealthy are afraid for 2020 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z As Anand Giridharadas notes, when plutocrats push back on proposals to increase their taxes, they never say what really motivates them, which is simply that they don’t want to pay higher taxes. Opinion | The plutocrats are getting very worried and angry 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Mixing droll gags with acerbic satire, Mr. Fradon skewered plutocrats, hucksters, crass politicians, corporate honchos and a sensationalist media. Dana Fradon, prolific New Yorker cartoonist with a satirical edge, dies at 97 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Bloomberg, a plutocrat who has held no elective office for the last six years, was fine sitting out when he thought Joe "nothing will fundamentally change" Biden was a lock for the nomination. Elizabeth Warren's frenemies: Her rise has been helped by haters 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Plus, racial division as an intentional weapon to win power for the plutocrats — the Koch brothers were the big funders of the Tea Party. Donald Trump and dog-whistle politics: How to beat him — and build long-term progressive victory 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z American political leaders were able to take on domestic money lords with a radical antitrust campaign to break the power of the plutocrats. Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism | Matt Stoller 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z From the perspective of Wall Street plutocrats, the real problem is not practical but spiritual. Opinion | The plutocrats are getting very worried and angry 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z They fantasise, like the plutocrats in Ayn Rand’s terrible novel Atlas Shrugged, about further escape. From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs | George Monbiot 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z This is a principle danger of subcontracting space to billionaire plutocrats, whose ambitions and interests might be inconsistent with society’s broader public purpose. Why are billionaires like Jeff Bezos so interested in space? 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z As for Epstein’s pals — the politicians and movie stars, the plutocrats and professors who traveled or partied with him and his seemingly endless company of young companions — no doubt some of them are sweating, too. Opinion | This aspect of Jeffrey Epstein’s plea bargain has been largely overlooked 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Like a tribute band playing its greatest hits, he reeled off familiar attacks on Wall Street, special interests, Big Pharma, plutocrats. 7 takeaways from Democratic debate Night 2: Sparks from Biden and Harris, honesty from Buttigieg 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z As I noted in January, “in many ways she is a modern version of a prairie populist, inveighing against the trusts, the plutocrats, and their corrupt political allies.” Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of the Case 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z A decade later, the populist plutocrat championed tax cuts for multinational corporations and millionaire members inside his clubs. Opinion | Disregard Trump’s ground noise. Focus on the signal. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In the 1920s, when Gilded Age plutocrats reigned in Manhattan, an heiress agreed to an unheard-of deal. Perk for the Ultrarich: Buy an $85 Million Apartment, Get a Trip to Space 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z A new generation of plutocrats has amassed great fortunes, in part because the federal government has minimized the burden of taxation. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z That’s not counting the various plutocrats caught in Us and Star magazines wearing nothing much at all. Opinion | It’s time to make rich people uncomfortable again 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Sardonic and just plain goofy, the play addresses the growing gap between plutocrats and the poor, the unchecked power of the military-industrial complex and the shabby treatment of immigrants. New in L.A. theater: Arthur Miller, Lucas Hnath and Lauren Yee 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Another example of how the US tax system was been hijacked by plutocrats and their hand-picked millionaire politicians and turned into an instrument that favors those elites. Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Where can we find a civic storyline compelling enough to draw us to power that’s cooperative and strong enough to resist demagogues and plutocrats? Resistance can't be tweeted: Social and political change is built on reading 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Corporations and the plutocrats have gamed the American political system and economy through a "too big to fail" strategy and narrative. Robert Reich on America's inequality crisis: Trump's "greedy enablers" will "reap the whirlwind" 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z As always, the global class of plutocrats and kleptocrats is strategizing how best to profit from this moment of fake right-wing populism. Six things we learned from the New Zealand massacre: Tim Wise on the crisis of whiteness 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It is that she is speaking about a reality that the plutocrats and other ruling elites have orchestrated. Chris Hedges: Democrats may well lose to Trump again, and Bernie Sanders is "naive" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Knocking out plates of raw spicy tuna to plutocrats with botoxed foreheads and Swarovski-clad iPhones is not the same as having spent your whole career deep in the food culture of Osaka. Authentic, natural, artisan … mind your language when talking about food 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The plutocrats and the kleptocrats, as always, will find a way to increase their wealth and in doing so expand their power and control over society. Michael Cohen's testimony: A dark spectacle, and a severe indictment of America's political culture 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In an age of extraordinary generosity from plutocrats, we are at risk of forgetting that the same class of people are also undermining the greater good every day and on an ongoing basis. Anand Giridharadas: 'What wealthy people do is rig the discourse' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Infrastructure around the world suffers from this current lack of international law which allows plutocrats and oligarchs to drain all equity from any government, corporation, or neighborhood watch group on the planet. A Tidal Wave of Mud 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z We also discussed the role of the Christian right in Trump and the plutocrats' assault on American democracy, the distinctive status of Reps. Chris Hedges: Democrats may well lose to Trump again, and Bernie Sanders is "naive" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He’s a ruthless plutocrat, whose online behemoth crushes retailers big and small. Why the National Enquirer’s Attempt to Extort Jeff Bezos Backfired 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I want to give some examples of the conquest of language – words that everybody uses, not just plutocrats, but that end up doing the plutocrats’ bidding. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The greatest fear in February 2017 was not of plutocrats but of a challenge to our constitutional norms. Opinion | It’s open season on the wealthy. But not every tycoon should be flattened. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “No, I’m not supportive of that,” Dell says, to much laughter from the assembled plutocrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knows yesterday’s radicalism can become tomorrow’s common sense | Jeff Sparrow 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “The plutocrats continue brazenly flaunting the excesses that have enraged much of humanity,” said Anand Giridharadas, author of “Winners Take All,” and a critic of wealthy philanthropists. The $238 Million Penthouse, and the Hedge Fund Billionaire Who May Rarely Live There 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Remember this, as the plutocrats gather this week high above us in the ski resort of Davos: they are terrified. Panic is on the agenda at Davos – but it’s too little too late | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It has been such a grim time for journalism, for books and many of these other things, in part, because of plutocrats and the monopolistic world they have built. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z When I strike it rich, I can take my place among the plutocrats who buy halos through charitable giving, which he called “humanitarian gloss and phony world changing.” I’ll Do Evil and I’ll Get Rich. You Can Have a Share. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Indeed, in many ways she is a modern version of a prairie populist, inveighing against the trusts, the plutocrats, and their corrupt political allies. Don’t Underestimate Elizabeth Warren and Her Populist Message 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Giridharadas also calls special attention to the Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton’s recently defunct annual gathering that extracted charitable commitments from corporations and plutocrats in exchange for some good PR and image laundering. Faux saviors: an insider calls out the 'charade' of elite do-gooding 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Trump's voters made a decision to support a plutocrat and an authoritarian and they should be held responsible for that decision. “Donald Trump is destroying truth”: Scholar Jason Stanley on the rhetoric of American fascism 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z It is also not clear whether a 76-year-old white man, sometimes referred to as a plutocrat, is the right fit for a party increasingly agitating for younger and minority faces. Analysts say party-switching Michael Bloomberg to face same hurdles as Trump 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They represent a shrill minority of purposefully uninformed plutocrats determined to obfuscate and confuse. News Networks Fall Short on Climate Story as Dolphins Die on the Beach 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The planter class of the South were plutocrats, the "one percent" of their era, and were terrified of poor white people rising up against them. Son and daughter of the Confederacy: Donald Trump and Cindy Hyde-Smith are a love match 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z And when the book first came out, renowned economist Joseph Stigletz took to the pages of the Times to urge philanthropic plutocrats to “read a copy of this book while in the Hamptons this summer”. Faux saviors: an insider calls out the 'charade' of elite do-gooding 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z This is the basis upon which many whites have been convinced to support a siphoning of wealth from themselves and their families skywards, up into the economic stratosphere for the plutocrats. Race, class and justice: After the midterms, a new way forward for Democrats 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z On one hand these are America's plutocrats and royalty who have done nothing to earn their power. Taught to rule: Why elite men like Brett Kavanaugh lie and cheat without consequences 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z So far the new plutocrats have – in the main – been good owners. Time: how the digital age became the iconic magazine’s unlikely savior 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Have the American people been fully cowed into a state of surrender to the plutocrats, right-wing zealots and other forces working against the common good? Historian and author Jeff Biggers: “Resistance is the quintessential American story” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It broke a social contract between the plutocrats and everyone else. From Trump to Trade, the Financial Crisis Still Resonates 10 Years Later 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Kraft loves being a presidential buddy but is also aware that many of his plutocrat friends don’t approve. The N.F.L. Stiff-Armed Trump. Now He Is Heckling From the White House. 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z These plutocrats not only decide elections with their campaign contributions but also write legislation through their lobbyists. America looks hopeless — a lot like the “mother country” once did 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z During this period, they gave occasional interviews to the Dutch press, coming across as insolent, dashing antiheroes—working-class toughs who’d dared to kidnap a plutocrat. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Most plutocrats measure progress in numbers, but the kind of work that Soros, through the O.S.F., has done generally defies quantification. George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z These politicians, in addition to their policy positions, eagerly accept large political contributions from influence-peddling plutocrats on Wall Street and in corporate America. Opinion | A Winning Strategy for Democrats? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Their pretences were always ludicrous: these are the outriders of an egomaniac plutocrat who slashes taxes on corporate and rich America while dragging screaming children from their parents and locking them up in cages. The Trump baby blimp is a perfect riposte to the snowflake right | Owen Jones 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Disrupting Europe’s social market economy model is the plutocrat party’s real target and any means will do. Is there method to Trump’s trade madness? 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Let’s end right now the ridiculous habit of inviting the sports world’s plutocrats to the White House. Trump 7, Eagles 0 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z That narrative may play out underground too if the media keep reporting skepticism about Musk’s vision of a Los Angeles labyrinth, with some calling it a plutocrat’s fantasy, others a boondoggle. Elon Musk: as business fortunes dip, he starts a war with the media 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The place is currently uninhabited, sitting on the market with a $7.5 million asking price, but for the next 12-odd hours, a plutocrat’s palace would become a communist’s playground. How Boots Riley Infiltrated Hollywood 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Like cowed Congressional Republicans, these plutocrats, or a solid majority of them, were and still are in fear of the wide reach of Trump's unfiltered and impetuous twittering. Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Another family of rapacious plutocrats devoted, along with their Republican lackeys, to reducing Americans to serfs. Walmart Expands Online Grocery Delivery to 100 Cities 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Jarvis said he learned the trade and made friends with the sons and daughters of China’s emerging plutocrats. International Soccer’s Man of Mystery 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Tech tycoons and other plutocrats are splashing fortunes for homes breaking records for scale, opulence and excess. America's costliest house: developer takes $500m gamble on Bel Air eyrie 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z This is rightwing populism’s next wave, and in an oligarchic world, every American plutocrat will soon be fielding his or her own perfectly legal troll army. The hysteria over Russian bots has reached new levels | Thomas Frank 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election, the theme of American plutocrats preparing for the apocalypse was impossible to avoid. Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Ruinous debt that lines plutocrats pockets is the Republican mantra. Republicans Have Forgotten They Hate Deficits 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s time our plutocrats and our laws do more to protect, respect and allow American workers to organize. A Wristband to Track Workers’ Hand Movements? (Amazon Has Patents for It) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The plutocrat billionaire crowd celebrates one of their own. A Sober Trump Reassures the Davos Elite 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Be wary of plutocrats suggesting ways to adjust monetary policy to allow their pile of money to grow faster. As Economy Strengthens, Fed Ponders New Approach 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Some Republicans may figure that with the political winds blowing against them, the time may be ripe to do favors for the plutocrats in exchange for cushy lobbying jobs. Trump’s dancing monkeys break bipartisan hearts 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Now more than ever, he’s governing like a plutocrat. Analysis | The Daily 202: Trump’s true priorities revealed in holiday news dumps 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Culture loss, like species loss, is our canary in the coal mine--- portending a world sculpted by the plutocrats and oligarchs. Thousands Once Spoke His Language in the Amazon. Now, He’s the Only One. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z In the United States, plutocrats were its main financiers. Planetariums and the rise of spectacular science Is US politics being taken over by big money plutocrats allied to fundamentalist religion and racism? Alabama Senate Race, Unlikely Nail-Biter, Races to Finish Line 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z “The plutocrats are riding on a hungry tiger,” writes Wolf. Opinion | Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The GOP is not the party of fiscal conservatism, it's the party of asset stripping a nation for the benefit of a handful of plutocrats and oligarchs. Senators Scramble to Advance Tax Bill That Increasingly Rewards Wealthy 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z That was back when he was demonizing Wall Street and the plutocrats gorging at its trough. Opinion | Ivanka, Louise and the Little People 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z The plutocrats shoving a bill down the throats of the population with virtually no debate is NOT the way our form of government was meant to run. Tax Bill Thrown Into Uncertainty as First G.O.P. Senator Comes Out Against It 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z We follow an unbridled sense of capitalism that allows the plutocrats to destroy the rest of us. China’s Technology Ambitions Could Upset the Global Trade Order 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Oligarchs and plutocrats of all stripes have formed a network of power that transcends politics and national boundaries. Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In all cases, libertarians viscerally opposed to centralised power made common cause with a brutally autocratic state apparatus in Moscow, an American plutocrat with a deeply murky financial record, and the instinctively authoritarian far right. Disruption games: why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine democracy? 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Romney was also vilified as an out-of-touch plutocrat at a time when the American economy was still recovering from the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. Battle hymns of the Republicans: Trump civil war is just getting started 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z “Hey, you, rural, middle class, conservative Trump voters,” Seattle’s liberal provocateur, plutocrat Nick Hanauer, shouted into the void by tweet the day of the budget vote. GOP going beyond hypocrisy with the national debt 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The national Republican party is the plutocrat party. Trump's biggest enemy isn't the media. It's poor people | Ross Barkan 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Jackson Hole has been a haunt for plutocrats for decades. What happens at Jackson Hole? - BBC News 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The issue that currently drives Hanauer, to the extent that he has been called “America’s premier self-loathing plutocrat”, is the growing disparity between the wealthy and poor, which he frames as a matter of self-preservation. He has six homes. Now this 'self-loathing plutocrat' wants to help those with none 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Why did a crowd in West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the union, celebrate plutocrats on Wall Street? ‘This is like medicine to him’: why Trump still needs the love of the crowd 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z And why do they dislike us so much, even while admiring gauche plutocrats such as President Trump? Review | Liberal elites don’t have a clue about the white working class. So says a liberal elite law professor. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z This is a lesson for all countries contemplating corporate tax breaks – even those without the misfortune of being led by a callow, craven plutocrat. Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich won't make America great again | Joseph Stiglitz 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He has appointed a government of plutocrats, mostly mirroring his own unfitness for office, who appear determined to dismantle the institutions that have made this country humane, strong, prosperous, and respected. Is Donald Trump simply the worst human being we can imagine? 14 experts weigh in 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In any case, some observers are glad a plutocrat like Hanauer is involved. He has six homes. Now this 'self-loathing plutocrat' wants to help those with none 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Fancy living like a Russian plutocrat with ties to President Trump? You can buy the New Jersey mansion owned by the father of Russian pop singer Emin 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It includes items like arms sales and whether a country’s financial rules enable tax evasion by plutocrats in poor nations. Trump’s Security Vision Leaves Little Room for Plowshares 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Advocates of reopening the road put up a wooden placard accusing the other side of being “racist plutocrats.” The 26-year fight over Klingle Road is the story of a changed and changing D.C. 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z It involves “policies that benefit plutocrats, justified by populist rhetoric.” Opinion | The Trump scandal that has nothing to do with Russia 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Likewise, this winning candidate apparently has deep yet undisclosed financial ties, including possible money-laundering scams, with this foreign government and its various wealthy plutocrats. No, the Russia scandal isn’t fake news or conspiracy theory — it’s a national crisis we don’t fully understand 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z “During his first hundred days in office, Trump has not done away with populist rhetoric, but he has acted almost entirely as a plutocrat.” Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a world of plutocrats and generals, what coloration will Donald Trump take on next? Presenting the Trump doctrine: 'forever war' 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In actuality, he is cooking up a fiscally irresponsible gift to plutocrats. Trump’s Tax Plan Looks Like a Plutocrat’s Dream 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z During his first hundred days in office, Trump has not done away with populist rhetoric, but he has acted almost entirely as a plutocrat. A Hundred Days of Trump 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z During the presidential campaign of 2016 he morphed unashamedly from plutocrat to populist, assuring millions of people struggling with unemployment, debt and inadequate incomes that he would solve their problems. National (in)security: What a Trump presidency really means for Americans at the edge 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The man ran as a populist and is governing as a plutocrat. Opinion | Brace yourself, taxpayers: Trump’s plutocracy doesn’t come cheap 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “We hate the plutocrat, but we sure vote for really wealthy people to be president,” she said. Analysis | Why America’s Founding Fathers wanted the president to take a salary 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z That further fact is that globalization has become a weapon against American workers precisely because the plutocrats that Trump is allied with have chosen to make it one. What Trump Gets Right on Trade 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But in the gaps in between, a determined plutocrat and a brilliant media strategist can, and have, found a way to mould journalism to their own ends. Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z These acts are a gift to Trump’s plutocrats and other gangster capitalists who he claims “can’t borrow money.” First installment on the butcher’s bill: Donald Trump’s supporters will be made to pay 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The economic populism that powered Trump’s Presidential campaign has been quickly obscured, not only by the chaos of his first month but by the plutocrats he has appointed to carry out his agenda. How Elizabeth Warren Found a Villain in Andy Puzder 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The “progressive plutocrats in Silicon Valley,” Bannon said, want unlimited ability to go around the world and bring people back to the United States. ‘Why let ’em in?’ Understanding Bannon’s worldview and the policies that follow. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Princeton University is the best at producing plutocrats—23% of its graduates end up as one-percenters, about the same as the share of its students who hail from equally wealthy households. Skipping class 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z God help us all in this age of plutocrats. How Alexa Fits Into Amazon’s Prime Directive 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z A megalomaniac plutocrat like Trump scapegoats foreigners while promoting policies which directly enriches his associates. Trump didn’t kill TPP, the people did | Owen Jones 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z As I described here just before the election, that article argued that the “postmodern state” was “under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.” Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: The plutocratic evil twins claim to stand against the neoliberal economic order (they don’t) 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z It is this group of so-called plutocrats that largely failed to anticipate — and may have even unconsciously generated — the seeping anti-establishment movement across the globe. What to Make of the ‘Davos Class’ in the Trump Era 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z His inauguration is just another opportunity for the plutocrats to buy their way into Donnie’s favor. Trump’s having a ball: His inauguration may add up to just another opportunity for the rich to pay to play 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Obama and his campaign team portrayed Mr. Romney as a plutocrat who dismantled companies and outsourced jobs. How the Obama Coalition Crumbled, Leaving an Opening for Trump 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Trump would likely talk about his populist, protectionist ideas while leading an administration filled with plutocrats and wearing a made-in-China tie. Is China the New Global Champion of Openness? 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z But there were many voters who felt nevertheless that the plutocrat would fight for workers and create jobs. Trump’s attack on a union leader will come back to haunt him 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “Trump is trying to position himself as a populist and govern as plutocrat,” he said. Did Al Gore get played? Engaging with Trump brings risk for the left 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Or, why Donald Trump, the flashy plutocrat tormented by his lowly status among Manhattan’s cultivated liberals, obsessively baits the New York Times and calls for a boycott of the Broadway show Hamilton. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Forget the Bill of Rights, Abbott is proposing a bill of sale, effectively transferring the title of our national government from the people to the plutocrats. Koch brothers protégé and Founding Father wannabe Gov. Greg Abbott wants to amend your Constitution 9 ways 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The Idaho plutocrat Frank L VanderSloot, for instance, may have lost his case against the leftwing magazine Mother Jones, but he had the satisfaction of tying up its editors in legal action for years. How our laws inspired Trump’s attack on free speech | Nick Cohen 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z And without any ties to plutocrats or the grotesque handful of corporations, like Goldman Sachs, that are squeezing the life out of the American people. Donald Trump’s Cabinet assembly instructions 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z So far, this is not a team of rivals but a team of plutocrats. Trump will helm a government of, by and for corporate America 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z On the other side of the market, bustling plutocrats are an ever-present source of demand for temporary accommodation and bursts of luxury. The sharing economy brings tycoon lifestyles within reach of some 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Astonishingly, the main political beneficiary of all this energy was Donald Trump, a plutocrat with a long history of taking on too much debt, stiffing his business partners, and not paying taxes. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Equally, plutocrats can threaten increasingly impoverished newspapers with costs they cannot afford, if they don’t back down and back off either. How our laws inspired Trump’s attack on free speech | Nick Cohen 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z In 2012, the Obama campaign attacked its Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, as a plutocrat who would outsource jobs and help the wealthy, not the middle class. Why the Election Is Close, and What Trump and Obama Have in Common 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, he pushed the caricature of the real estate mogul as an out-of-touch plutocrat. Beyoncé's feminist message at rally for Clinton: 'Look how far we've come' 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The New York Times account of how he benefited from $885 million in tax breaks and subsidies offers a classic example of how plutocrats extract wealth from the postmodern state. Donald Trump and the “twin insurgency”: He’s half plutocrat, half criminal and entirely ruthless 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z And if he saw this magnificent room, full of plutocrats celebrating his legacy, he’d be very confused. Read Hillary Clinton's Al Smith Dinner Speech 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The state can license a plutocrat to establish a regulator. How our laws inspired Trump’s attack on free speech | Nick Cohen 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z They believed that Mr. Romney was a plutocrat who outsourced jobs and would favor the rich over ordinary Americans. Theories of the Race: How Solid Is Hillary Clinton’s Lead? 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z New York Times is the paper of the oligarchs and plutocrats. Poor, Displaced and Anxious in North Carolina as Floods Climb After Hurricane 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Trump is the very embodiment of the twin insurgency, an insurgent plutocrat with suggestive links to criminality, who takes full advantage of areas free from the rule of law. Donald Trump and the “twin insurgency”: He’s half plutocrat, half criminal and entirely ruthless 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z But in the 1880s and early 1890s, populist politics was primarily directed upward at the plutocrats. Us v Them: the birth of populism | John B Judis | the long read 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Four years ago, Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars making the case that Mitt Romney was an unfeeling, out-of-touch plutocrat. Donald Trump’s Conduct Was Excused Again and Again. But Not This Time. 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z But four years earlier, Democrats had held down Mitt Romney’s support with working-class, white voters by branding him early and often as a plutocrat. Following Trump tax revelations, voters in Toledo question his business acumen 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z This image — of Romney as a selfish plutocrat — stuck, and probably contributed to his defeat. Americans don’t mind paying taxes. But they want Trump to, also. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Preventing climate breakdown means defending democracy from plutocrats. No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth | George Monbiot 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Last night, Clinton, with Trump’s help, sharpened the portrait of Trump the plutocrat. Hillary Clinton Makes Donald Trump a Familiar Target 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But the Trump that Clinton described was a plutocrat who walked away from debts and obligations to his own employees. Clinton shifts the election in her direction 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Their humiliations at the hands of a brazen plutocrat, sardonically filmed with soaring camera work, are matched by their riotous efforts to work in the entertainment business—at a folkloric theme park. New York Film Festival’s Breakout Films 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z They constituted a decile of discontent, squeezed between their own countries’ plutocrats and Asia’s middle class. Shooting an elephant 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z How did we land in the position where voters are asked to choose between an ignorant plutocrat and an unprincipled meritocrat? What a Revoltin’ Development 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The precedent is that a plutocrat, answering to know one, can silence a media outlet. Peter Thiel: The Online Privacy Debate Won’t End With Gawker 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The rebellion of the Republican plutocrats against their party’s presidential nominee has prompted a counterattack from Trump supporters. Anti-Trump letter reveals jittery band of Republican establishment power brokers 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Two men bombed me and then shot up my spine with tommy guns, the contemptible, bicycling plutocrats—Heil Hitler!” Anthropoid Historical Adviser on Why the True Story Matters 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z For plutocrats, capitalism — the system that allows them to hold on to their enormous wealth while billions of people live in grinding poverty — trumps democracy — which could threaten their wealth. Plutocrats make it clear: Capitalism trumps democracy — why some free-marketeers actually like dictators 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z And the U.S. government keeps backing all of these plutocrats around the world -- like Marcos and Suharto and the Shah -- as long as they pledge allegiance to the U.S. position. Malaysia’s Leader, Dogged by a Billion-Dollar Scandal, Proves Untouchable 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z The former Massachusetts governor was the embarrassed plutocrat. Clinton Campaign Plans To Pull A Romney on Donald Trump 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z Other speakers used anecdotes to testify to Mitt Romney’s character, trying to wash away Democrats’ caricature of him as a heartless plutocrat. Missing in Cleveland: The person behind Donald Trump’s persona 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z My new friend merely returned the crossword to its original state, a reclamation by the commoner against the global plutocrats. A 91-year-old woman finished a crossword puzzle that was actually art in a museum 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z In short, it is aimed squarely at ordinary Americans — a clientele the company scrupulously avoided during the first 147 years of its history, favoring instead tycoons and plutocrats. After 147 Years, Goldman Sachs Hangs a Shingle on Main Street 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The best case for Mr. Trump is that white Northerners reluctantly backed Mr. Obama because Mr. Romney was successfully caricatured as a rapacious plutocrat. There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That’s Good News for Trump. 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z If a plutocrat wants to build a private island free from government influence, they probably can. Peter Thiel's Gawker war not his first brush with a high-priced vendetta 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z At least some of the plutocrats and swells will be diverted from the North Fork. Montauk Goes High-End 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A plutocrat who wants to cut taxes on the rich? How Clinton Will Take on Trump's Foreign Policy 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z And let's remember that the plutocrats were a pillar of support for German state fascism, along with the war machine they helped to build in defiance of the Versailles treaty starting in the depression years. Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Despite all the attention paid to plutocrats atop $14,000 carbon machines, your average cyclist is pretty much…everybody. America! The Cyclist Is Not Your Enemy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The plutocrats will be fine with that - but the everyone else will be much the poorer for it. Before Indiana, Ted Cruz Struggles as Donald Trump Revels in Lead 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump made his opponents out to be millionaire plutocrats, “people of great wealth.” Tenants Thwarted Donald Trump’s Central Park Real Estate Ambitions 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z If not, if conservatives continue their ways and the plutocrats are not stopped, there will be more than a Bernie Sanders' revolution in the United States of America. Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle for Puerto Rico’s Future 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Whoever wins the nomination will face regular attacks from Democrats over how to square their populist message with their plan to pad plutocrat bank accounts. Donald Trump's tax cuts for top 1% set up general election fight 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They pump in billions in aid, the plutocrats steal it, and as long as the special interests on both sides are getting what they want, everyone tries to pretend nothing is going on. Keep the Candle of Freedom Burning in the Congo 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Money and the plutocrats, corporatocracy wins and rules. Primary Process Is Seen as in Conflict With Democracy 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z And now the monster is unleashed, a plutocrat feeding on the fears of the neglected. I signed an open letter to Donald Trump, and you should too | Owen Jones 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the region had been eclipsed by the Himalayas as a destination for adventure-seekers and plutocrats looking for a braggable challenge. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z With dark strokes and spare backgrounds, Arno created raffish scenes of potbellied plutocrats and curvy chorus girls amid flowing martinis and a racy ambience. An Homage to New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Then there were thousands of the angry, the frustrated and the thwarted, putting their faith in a showman plutocrat and his promises to make America great again. Hamilton v Trump: visions for America from a Broadway show – and a showman 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, developers rushed to build roughly three dozen towers aimed at the Arab princes, Russian plutocrats and other wealthy foreign clients who, brokers say, account for about three-quarters of the highest-end sales. At Dizzying Heights, Prices of Luxury Apartments May Have Found Ceiling 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Nothing could have shouted louder that the unlikely choice of middle America’s struggling white working class is a billionaire plutocrat from the Big Apple. Super Tuesday with the candidates: anticipation, defiance and arrogance 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Finally, on Feb. 3, Mr. Abromavicius announced he was resigning because Ukrainian plutocrats were grinding down his efforts at reform. Ukraine should heed its economy minister’s warning on corruption 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z And the plutocrat shall save us from the masses. The Myth of the Bloomberg Voter 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z If you had any doubt that he is in this race for the benefit of anyone other than himself and the plutocrats funding his campaign, this should drive them right out. The lightweight candidate: Rubio’s NH town hall left no doubt he’s in it for himself and the plutocrats who fund his campaign 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z But at the same time I really do think the public is disgusted with the idea that a handful of secret plutocrats would be choosing the next president. A Bright Light on Dark Money 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z That task fell instead, as it has throughout the campaign, to Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Clinton’s ultraliberal rival, whose denunciations of greedy plutocrats and an unfair economy are at the center of his message. Fury Shakes the Iowa Caucuses, Boosting Ted Cruz While Slowing Hillary Clinton 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Sanders rails against big banks, powerful corporations and wealthy plutocrats who bend the system to their will. What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have in common 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Sleek and skinny super-luxury buildings spring up around Central Park, and single apartments sell for nine-digit figures, adding credence to the caricature of Manhattan as a club for global plutocrats. The Kleptocrat in Apartment B 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Quite a few of the plutocrats will find themselves holed up in the kind of hostel they’d advise their backpacking teenage children to avoid. A Clouded View From the Commanding Heights 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The parade of plutocrats in this year’s campaigns is already on the march — even though Election Day still is nearly a year away. How to rid politics of its pollution by wealthy donors? 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z So, in the new age presided over by Caesar Augustus, was the selfish greed of plutocrats justly treated.” Roman tyrants in all their brutal glory 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Meanwhile rivals, such as the Kavli and Breakthrough prizes, are being endowed by more recent plutocrats. Throw caution to the wind? 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The image we grew up with was that Hamilton was the stooge of the plutocrats. Ron Chernow: What Would Have Happened If Alexander Hamilton Lived 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Romney lost that election in part because he was a living caricature of a comically out-of-touch plutocrat, and in part because the policies he backed were obviously and inarguably designed to favor the rich. The GOP poverty PR push: Selling the same old pro-rich policies, but now with free turkeys 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The problem is not confined to plutocrats caught up in Lava Jato. Weird justice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Though it speaks to plutocrats' influence over politics, she says, "These things are important and we would be remiss to not acknowledge that." Do Debates Matter? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z There were people dressed in costume, including a man appearing as a cartoon-style plutocrat, replete with a black top hat and a papier-mâché mask featuring eyeballs emblazoned with dollar signs. Donald Trump's Scheduled Appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' Draws Protest 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In November 1910, he, Warburg and several leading bankers sneaked off to a plutocrats’ resort on Jekyll Island, off the Georgia coast, under the ruse that they were going duck hunting. The horesetrading that gave birth to the Federal Reserve 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z To peg back the plutocrats, he would abolish the corporate funding of elections that he himself disdains. Berning up 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Low taxes help plutocrats and the finance firms which accompany them. Cleaning up 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She was also attacked for being a plutocrat feminist, concerned only with the high-class problems of affluent women. Is ‘having it all’ as simple as getting men to demand that, too? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z West has referred to Obama as “a Rockefeller Republican in blackface” and “a black puppet of corporate plutocrats,” among other insults. Cornel West joins Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail in South Carolina 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z For the CNBC-watching plutocrats who comprise “the establishment” of the Republican Party, the summer has been, if not quite a disaster, certainly a mess. Jeb Bush is losing, and the GOP establishment has no one to blame but itself 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Like their fellow plutocrats, Sanders said, the Kochs “are very, very powerful.” Bernie Sanders is wrong about the Koch brothers: They’re even more dangerous than he thinks 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The frustration is real, but the solution is Nixonian: Get those white voters focused on a menacing “other,” rather than plutocrats like Trump. Donald Trump’s Southern strategy: What his Alabama pep rally revealed about the right’s new racial politics 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z The fellow plutocrat, who has made a fortune selling cars in New England, is awestruck by Trump. 24 hours with Trump includes press, but not policy: 'I don't think people care' 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z He attacked him as a fraud, a phony and a corrupt plutocrat. Rand Paul’s desperate Trump gambit: Convenient shape-shifter blasts The Donald’s convenient shape-shifting 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Trump is hardly the first Western plutocrat to venture into politics. Why Do Working Class Voters Love Donald Trump? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Maybe their example would convince other plutocrats that such public corruption wasn’t worth the risk. Bernie Sanders is wrong about the Koch brothers: They’re even more dangerous than he thinks 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The fact of unemployment, Fraser writes, struck these men and women “as shocking, unnatural, and traumatic,” as did the astronomic new wealth of the nation’s plutocrats. We have the left and right all wrong: The real story of the politics of nostalgia and tradition 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Super PACs, by contrast, can accept any amount from anyone and are widely criticized by campaign finance reform advocates as tilting American democracy in favor of plutocrats with the biggest checks. Bush not a candidate? Super PAC's spending reveals otherwise 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Thus, obviously, the workers are getting ripped off by the capitalist plutocrats. US Wages, Contrary To The Usual Line, Have Been Keeping Up With Productivity 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In a democracy founded by wealthy slave-owners and settler colonialists, and hollowed out by plutocrats, many citizens turn out to have never enjoyed equality of conditions. How to think about Islamic State 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z But if he wasn’t born a plutocrat, he’s a zealous convert to the cause. Scott Walker makes Mitt Romney look like FDR: The Kohl’s shopper is even more callous toward the poor 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z This brings me back to the question of what the tech plutocrats mean by freedom. A Letter to Millennials: Don't Sleep Through the Revolution 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It vaunts the ascendancy of runaway money that is driving up property prices, keeping bankers banking and filling Mayfair with art-buying plutocrats. Leave London? Never – I’ll be staying, and fighting for it 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The Golden State depends too much on its fine crop of plutocrats, and its funds rise and fall with their fortunes. Trouble ahead 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z OK, reasonably standard, the capitalist plutocrats are stealing that better living from the mouths of the American middle class. The Joyous Glories Of Nick Hanauer's Economic Policies 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z “There were all those images of plutocrats with big stomachs. And now it’s people who are powerful who exercise.” Forget the White House. What about the 2016 Swimsuit Contest? 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In fact, Russian plutocrats own many homes in the area. London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s time for Americans to spend time protecting democracy from plutocrats. I flew a gyrocopter onto the Capitol lawn to save our democracy 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z These two visions will collide in 2016, the vision of everyday Americans and the vision of the plutocrats. Why does the GOP hate college? 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z More self-employment and higher consumption taxes essentially, not the capitalist plutocrats running away with all the pelf. What Jolly Japes With US GDP Figures 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The sad thing, however, is that — as often happens with this crowd — it’s the plutocrats who end up having the last laugh. Plutocrats Gone Wild 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It is long, boring, smug and tendentious; and with its neoliberal cant and genuflecting to plutocrats, it is everything the post-Obama Democratic Party should not be. Corporate centrists declare war on Warren Democrats: Why Hillary Clinton must spurn this disastrous neoliberalism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z These include young people and minorities who only sometimes vote, as well as several million working-class whites who stayed at home in 2012 rather than vote for Mr Romney, an awkward plutocrat. Hillary’s money woes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z This is not because we are all evil plutocrats plotting to steal the economic lifeblood from them. John Oliver Really Needs To Understand Clothing Sweatshops And Wages 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z But as Keynes proved decades ago, starving the beast during times of economic downturn is just plutocrats' Monopoly and ends in a bust with no friends or hotels in sight. The James Dean Movie That Explains the Greek Debt Negotiations 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That’s why the parties at Davos are where the ponderous Alpine gabfest is most likely to create real value for the assembled technocrats and plutocrats. Plutocrats Gone Wild 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The announcement drew complaints from some other artists, among them the band Mumford & Sons, whose members mocked Tidal’s celebrity backers as “plutocrats” in an interview with The Daily Beast. Jay Z Counters Reports of Struggles at Tidal Music Streaming Service 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Now, even the loyalty of these so-called plutocrats is being questioned. Tidal's Woes Echo Those of Beats Music 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z He famously called the president “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.” “Calling Obama a ‘global George Zimmerman’? No. No.”: Michael Eric Dyson sounds off on Cornel West, Obama & his critics 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And the only part that the plutocrats holding the debt fail to realize, and this plutocratic mouthpiece fails to mention is that they are overtly wrong. The James Dean Movie That Explains the Greek Debt Negotiations 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The subsidies do not flow from us taxpayers to the capitalist plutocrats. Isn't It Excellent That The Welfare System Subsidises Low Wages In The Restaurant Industry? 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Make the capitalist plutocrats pay up fair wages and that bill will fall, meaning that we’re no longer subsidising said capitalist plutocrats. Welfare Payments Really Are Not Subsidies To The Profits Of Walmart And McDonald's 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z There’s all sorts of Very Serious People running around shouting about how the capitalist plutocrats are taking ever greater shares of the US economy. Increased Globalisation Explains Some Of The Increase In The US Profit Share 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Labour implies that anyone with wealth is an idle plutocrat, and the Conservatives suggest anyone on benefits is an idle scrounger. What's gone wrong with party politics? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The villains are not plutocrats but the politicians who make dependency so tempting. The Real Reasons So Many People in Rich Countries Need State Handouts 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z He understands business, excels at attracting investors to Chicago and is so popular with plutocrats, including Republican ones, that he managed to raise $21m for his campaign in record time. Can Jesús save Chicago? 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z This is not an argument about whether inequality is a good or bad thing, nothing whatever to do with attempting a defence of capitalism or even of plutocrats. I'm Not Sure That Naomi Klein Actually Understands Economics All That Well 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s thus very misleading indeed to be using this profit share as an indication of the capitalist plutocrats rooking us all. Increased Globalisation Explains Some Of The Increase In The US Profit Share 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z No, it’s not possible that the capitalist owners of the robots just consume everything: if that were so then there’d still be jobs for us to do in making things for our fellow non-capitalist plutocrats. A Mark Bittman Economics Column Is Like Me Doing One On Cooking 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z But the affable and quirky engineer is certainly no plutocrat. Professor Of Software: Goh Peng Ooi Becomes Malaysia's First Tech Billionaire 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z In the first Gilded Age, everyone from reporters to politicians apparently felt comfortable painting plutocrats as villains; in the second, this is, somehow, forbidden. Why Inequality Persists in America 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In 2012, Democrats won in part by settling on a narrative of Mitt Romney early – that he was an out of touch plutocrat – and repeating it obsessively through Election Day. Republicans united and divided on Clinton bashing 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z If investigators start snooping around, they will find a company that is owned by a licensed insurer, not a tax-evading plutocrat. Leaks on tap 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Daimler will unveil a new version of the Mercedes-Benz Pullman at next month's Geneva auto show, a six-seater stretch limousine known for its popularity with plutocrats, dictators and politicians. Mercedes-Benz to unveil new Pullman 'dictator ship' in Geneva 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z And no, this isn’t about being nice to the capitalist plutocrats at all: it’s just how the system works. The Real Reason That US Corporate Income Tax Receipts Are Falling 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Republicans nominated a candidate who was easy to caricature as an out-of-touch plutocrat who did not share the values of ordinary Americans. Can Billionaires Buy Elections? Legislation plainly in the public interest, whether about equal pay or environmental protection or educational and economic opportunity, is routinely dismissed because those measures will be opposed by corporate interests or plutocrats. Five years after Citizens United ruling, big money reigns 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Plenty of those plutocrats are here on the Magic Mountain, and some are undoubtedly checking in with their tax planners. What Obama and Davos Plutocrats Have in Common 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And Mitt Romney, the 47 percenter plutocrat who once dismissed income gap concerns as being “about envy,” is eyeing yet another White House bid built at least in part around battling poverty. State of the Union Showcases Republicans' Prosperity Problem 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z So far it would be fair enough for everyone to say that we really are letting the capitalist plutocrats off easy. The Real Reason That US Corporate Income Tax Receipts Are Falling 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z His tax policies benefit the Koch Allies he courts and the national plutocrats and Badger State deep pockets tapped during his first four term. Scott Walker Shows Promise Heading Into 2016 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The rights and privileges of the corporate plutocrat military-industrial complex are more important than the rights and privileges and liberties and freedoms of 99% of the American people. The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’ 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps a plutocrat will be inspired after reading this. In Naples, Gift of Coffee to Strangers Never Seen 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A combination of the falling ruble, legal woes and political turmoil contributed to the plutocrats’ tumble from their ranks. Russia's Richest Lose $73 billion 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z At a time when populism is all the rage, Bush apparently is trying to reshape his image as just another well-heeled GOP plutocrat image. Three-Minute Briefing: Obama on Race, Fiorina and the Boys’ Club, Colbert's Last 'Report' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z There are of course losers - the huge oil companies, governments and plutocrats in oil-rich countries, from Saudi to Russia and Nigeria. Hooray for cheap oil 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z But in a country convinced that government is broken and its servants hopeless, perhaps plutocrats are cuddlier than bureaucrats. What we can learn from those who turned from profits to politics 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Our image of a capitalist is a 19th century millowner in a top hat or a miserly plutocrat such as Montgomery Burns from “The Simpsons”. All it needs is love 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z And given the limited antitrust exemption, it needs to take power back from the plutocrat conferences. It’s not that the NCAA doesn’t know what it’s doing; it’s that the NCAA doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be doing Then we’ve the capital share: this is what goes to the capitalist plutocrats. Shouldn't An Economics Editor Understand The Economic Numbers? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The effectiveness of the Democrats’ class warfare message has been further undermined by the nature of the recovery; while failing most Americans, the Obama era has been very kind to plutocrats of all kinds. The Demographics That Sank The Democrats In The Midterm Elections 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z For too many liberals, conservatives are gun-toting, racist fanatics who win political office by fraud and are dedicated to establishing a Christian theocracy run by greedy plutocrats as part of a plan to destroy America. Opinion: Partisan Blockage But that's become more difficult with every election, as the pocketbooks that carry the most weight aren't those of the individual voter, but corporations and plutocrats. Voters are left in the dark on campaign spending by corporations 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z But these strategies for protecting plutocrats from the mob are indirect and imperfect. Plutocrats against democracy 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z “But these strategies for protecting plutocrats from the mob are indirect and imperfect,” Krugman observes. Paul Krugman’s fear: “It’s by no means clear” whether democracy or plutocracy will prevail in America 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z One of the best features of Lauder’s gift, which I wish all plutocrats would take as a model, is that it comes without restrictions. Cubism at the Met review – stupefying, heart-quickening and overpowering 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Because the plutocrats and oligarchs have long since perfected the art of regulatory capture. Jean Tirole Wins Nobel in Economics for Work on Regulation 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He has cast, for example, his unnerving eye over the plutocrats at play in St Tropez as well as the Hamptons. Eric Fischl: ‘What America wants is artists who are doing very expensive toys’ 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z This means that, at a time when austerity bites into millions of homes and the solvency of the NHS is parlous, the British state is contributing to the education of the children of foreign plutocrats. Private schools’ charitable status is great... if you’re a foreign plutocrat 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Two years after Democrats held the White House by painting Mitt Romney as a callous plutocrat, the GOP is borrowing a page from the same populist playbook. GOP Dubs Democrats the Party of the Rich in 2012 Turnabout 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z No, it wasn’t anything at all about how lovely free markets are, nothing to do with how we must all bow down to the capitalist plutocrats and not even an abjuration to avoid socialism. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand And Low Retail Interest In Alibaba's IPO 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The message: Democrats are the party of the hard-working middle class while Republicans defend plutocrats and greedy corporations. Is Treasury About to Curb Tax Inversions on Its Own? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Being successful means working your way to the front of the room, becoming the plutocrat at the top of the ladder. Our Schools Are Un-American. Video Games Can Fix That 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z If it's just the tax-evading plutocrats, the global financial institutions interested in balanced national budgets and the companies developing income-tracking software, then it's hardly a democratic success. The rise of data and the death of politics 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The American economy is more concentrated today than it’s been in more than a century, since the days of the plutocrats. Free markets killed capitalism: Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 percent’s sick triumph over us all 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The only Americans who could consider this devastated era "promising" are the plutocrats who rule our age, and Koons himself, smiling too broadly to see the culture he propitiates collapse around him. Jeff Koons: A Retrospective review – great, good, bad and terrible art 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, sterling no longer seemed quite so attractive to the plutocrats who control the world's squillions. The good and bad of $1.70 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Asked how to preserve this middle-class bastion, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered a plutocrat’s appraising eye. Stuyvesant Town, Former Middle-Class Bastion, Awaits Mayoral Help 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z At first glance, many probably dismiss this news as just an example of plutocrats bilking plutocrats. The newest threat to the middle class: Why private equity is becoming public problem 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The golf lobby is sensitive to the perception that the sport is just a plutocrat’s hobby. Selfies. The campaign schedule spoiler “Part of the delight of the story is the cigar and the plutocrat. The image that creates in one’s mind is indelible. Nobody knows if it’s true.” The ‘Mona Lisa’ of Stamps to Be Auctioned at Sotheby’s 2014-05-02T03:58:36Z Topics: , David Koch, Wall Street Journal, Billionaire self-pity, , , , Billionaires, , plutocrats, , Billionaires’ crybaby club: Someone get these whiners a bottle! 2014-04-03T15:47:00Z By the late 70s, thanks to the Buckley decision, plutocrats had discovered two more loopholes, each of them big enough to drive a Brinks truck through. A Supreme Court out of control! How McCutcheon will spur corruption and inequality 2014-04-02T18:43:00Z Let us now stop and praise the plutocrat. Science Proves It: Greed Is Good 2014-03-28T21:34:46Z Nor, for that matter, does he target plutocrats like Romney who might be lulled into not taking risks because they pay an absurdly low tax rate simply by moving money around. Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia 2014-03-15T18:30:18Z "What the excerpt captured was the insularity and paranoia of plutocrats who band together to protect themselves from mostly imagined social opprobrium and self-doubt." Wall Street lords laugh over bailout 2014-02-19T19:27:05Z What the excerpt captured was the insularity and paranoia of plutocrats who band together to protect themselves from mostly imagined social approbation and self-doubt. Filthy rich but secretly terrified: Inside the One Percent’s sore-winner backlash 2014-02-18T18:03:00Z He boxed the plutocrat known as Michael R. Bloomberg about the ears, and deservedly so on labor contracts. Gotham: For de Blasio, No Magic Lost in Budget Draft 2014-02-13T01:52:17Z With all that vexing talk about inequality, do the world’s plutocrats need a cuddle? DealBook: Social Responsibility Weighs Heavy on Economic Chieftains at Davos 2014-01-25T19:35:12Z Or at least that is what these plutocrats with a conscience say. Will inequality rise in this recovery? 2014-01-23T11:19:48Z So why are the lower orders twiddling their thumbs while the plutocrats continue their ascent? Inequality: Why aren’t the poor storming the barricades? 2014-01-21T19:24:24Z Last week Tom Perkins doubled down on his plutocrat paranoia at the Commonwealth Club last week, insisting the more money you have, the more votes you should get. Filthy rich but secretly terrified: Inside the One Percent’s sore-winner backlash 2014-02-18T18:03:00Z At the same time, the moguls have a record of tax evasion — a persistent progressive issue — that would turn castigated plutocrats like Mitt Romney green with envy. How Silicon Valley Could Destabilize The Democratic Party 2014-01-09T21:00:00Z Are we selling off our skyline to the plutocrats? Critic’s Notebook: Seeing a Need for Oversight of New York’s Lordly Towers 2013-12-23T01:31:03Z We spawned a transglobal class of plutocrats that calls no country home. Depressed? Climate change could be to blame 2013-12-11T12:50:00Z “They will use the plutocrat angle to make sure he doesn’t educate poor kids the way he educated his own kids,” says Bacon, sardonically. Can Hedge Fund Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones Save America's Public Education System? 2013-11-17T22:46:00Z If liberals, neoliberals, and moderate Republicans wish to quell a libertarian uprising, they need to vanquish the throngs of incompetent policy wonks and ingrained plutocrats. Libertarian populism: Bail-outs and safety nets 2013-08-12T17:18:17Z The idea was simple: full bellies and entertainment would ensure that the plebs did not storm the villas of Rome's plutocrats. New direction needed to lead us out of Wongaland 2013-07-28T15:00:49Z Oh, and the mayor could lobby to raise taxes on those out-of-town plutocrats buying zillion-dollar aeries. Critic’s Notebook: Seeing a Need for Oversight of New York’s Lordly Towers 2013-12-23T01:31:03Z Luxe Builders Chase Dreams of Property Tax Exemptions Credit our plutocrats and the real estate developers who adore them with this: No financial advantage is too small for them to pursue. Gotham: Luxe Builders Chase Dreams of Property Tax Exemptions 2013-06-25T01:06:59Z Making capitalism work for everyone, and not just the plutocrats, I argued, is our most pressing political and economic problem. Way of the World: Eye-Opener for the Elite on Inequity 2013-06-13T15:22:18Z But the gender divide between the plutocrats and everyone else is more a cause for worry than for celebration. Way of the World: Sexist Mores of Super-Rich Hurt Us All 2013-05-30T12:42:18Z The Economist, that inflight magazine for the autodidactic plutocrat, recently wrote: "The streets of Stockholm are awash with the blood of sacred cows." Swedish riots: if instability can happen here, what might unfold elsewhere? 2013-05-27T17:22:00Z Another is that when too much of the income goes to the very top and not enough goes to the middle, spending slumps — how many yachts does a plutocrat need? — putting a brake on growth. Way of the World: Looking for Capitalism's Tipping Point 2013-05-16T12:42:19Z Mitt Romney’s drubbing by Hispanic voters last year was a wake-up call not only for his fellow Republicans but also for his fellow plutocrats. Marketing: The lust for Latino lucre 2013-05-09T15:00:32Z But at a forum in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, Mr. McDonald, 68, sought to use his quirky manner to his advantage as he portrayed his two Republican opponents as out-of-touch plutocrats. City Room: At Republican Forum, McDonald Promises to Make the Economy His Focus 2013-04-24T03:16:31Z Faithful witness is provided by last weekend's Sunday Times Rich List, when it notes that, among the aristos and commodity oligarchs, the IT industry is the fifth-biggest provider of plutocrats. Young appmakers can't count on a job for life 2013-04-22T20:00:09Z He was a plutocrat, but also a philanthropist. Rags to riches to philanthropy 2013-04-22T08:29:49Z In the years when the Washington consensus really was just that, the kind of deregulated capitalism that created the plutocrats of Davos was unapologetic. Davos: are the captains of capitalism finally paying attention? 2013-01-27T00:07:07Z One of the functions of the World Economic Forum — decide for yourself whether this is a virtue or a vice — is to give the plutocrats a venue for figuring out their party line. Way of the World: A Top Hawk Gets Dovish on Deficit 2013-01-24T18:30:07Z But in practice, he found, it would be a place more welcoming to the plutocrats. City Room: Judge Blocks Restaurant Plan for Union Square Park 2013-01-10T18:49:43Z My scepticism was entirely directed at the ridiculous, untrammelled cost, as it soared from the original promise of "a people's games" at £2bn-3bn to the eventual plutocrats' games at just under £9bn. The Olympics were a celebration worthy of Nero – and as extravagant 2012-12-27T20:30:01Z But while some Republicans promised to commence soul-searching about why most Americans rejected their message, their right-wing flank, and the plutocrats who fund them, are only getting crazier. Man up, Democrats! 2012-12-12T12:45:00Z Earlier this year, West told TruthDig that Obama is “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.” Viewpoint: What’s Behind the Bad Blood Between Cornel West and Obama 2012-11-15T16:38:38Z “This was all personal: that Romney is a vulture capitalist who doesn’t care about people like you, ships jobs overseas, is a quintessential plutocrat and is married to a known equestrian.” Top Republicans say Romney didn’t offer specifics 2012-11-15T14:15:00Z He reacted slowly when Barack Obama defined him as a heartless plutocrat, and flip-flopped on policies so frequently that even campaign allies struggled to keep up. Lexington: State of denial 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z On Tuesday night, the plutocrats lost their shirts. Way of the World: When Votes Count More Than Checks 2012-11-08T16:00:28Z The idea was to paint Romney in lurid colors as Scrooge McDuck minus the spats, a Bain plutocrat who swam in gold coins that he looted from once proud companies before firing their hardworking employees. For Obama, Survival Is the New Winning 2012-11-08T10:50:21Z Pay-as-you-go rooftop rescue service may appeal to plutocrats; when the flood waters are rising, ordinary folks welcome the National Guard. It's Global Warming, Stupid 2012-11-01T09:50:25Z And secondly, Democrats have been particularly successful in Ohio at painting Romney as a rapacious plutocrat out of synch with white, working-class values. Keys to Ohio: Five Counties that May Decide the Presidency 2012-10-29T13:35:26Z Blair and Brown, who seemed such mighty figures in 2004, now look like nincompoops who could not see the crisis coming in a financial system whose plutocrats they flattered. Britons have never been angrier or more confused 2012-10-27T23:21:34Z So why did the conversation shift from the unemployed to the plutocrats? Have We Become Too Obsessed with the Rich? 2012-10-16T11:30:21Z The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice’s oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them. Opinion: The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent 2012-10-13T23:19:03Z As in the Gilded Age in America, capitalism in today’s emerging markets involves close links between politicians and plutocrats. Asia: Crony tigers, divided dragons 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z The widening gaps within many countries are beginning to worry even the plutocrats. For richer, for poorer 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z Chinese, Russian and Middle Eastern plutocrats are taking their place. Butlers: Very good, sir 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z His previous strategy—painting Mr Romney as a heartless plutocrat who is hiding his true plans from the electorate—may be running its course. Lexington: Hope and change, four years on 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z Obama’s admen spent millions during the summer reducing him to a one-dimensional figure, a rich, heartless plutocrat who cared nothing for the people he was courting. Goodbye, Mr. Scissorhands: Romney Recaptures Centrist Image 2012-10-10T23:35:39Z Donaghy is a plutocrat, but in a proud American tradition — a self-made plutocrat. Management lessons from Jack Donaghy 2012-10-05T16:00:57Z Four years on, we have Mitt Romney, a plutocrat with important hair and no particular political principles, running to be the third term of George W Bush. Viewpoint: Agony of an undecided voter 2012-10-01T23:19:39Z |
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