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</html><description>The NYTimes doing what it does best when it can be bothered. Nicholas Confessore, Sarah Cohen, and Karen Yourish dig into the 156 families (only 20 of them Democrats) that grease the political gears here in our Second Gilded Age: They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tunchiswatching.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>2048</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>1536</thumbnail_height></oembed>
