The New Face of American Power

What we can really learn from Gatesgate:

...America is being led, to a striking extent, by a new elite, a cohort of the best and the brightest whose advancement was formed, at least in part, by affirmative action policies. ...And yet the consequences of that change remain unresolved.

..Even those who now occupy niches at the top of society, regard their status as complicated, ambiguous and vulnerable.

--from Helene Cooper at the Times