elites

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It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Yet an overly centralized administrative approach may simply relocate concentrated power from private elites to managerial bureaucracies operating at even greater distance from ordinary communities and persons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Mahan entered the race late and with little statewide name recognition, but catapulted into contention thanks to massive funding from billionaire tech titans, venture capitalists, cryptocurrency investors and other Silicon Valley elites.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Economists and financial elites are speaking out at industry forums about the war’s devastating effects.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

Nothing in the opinion or in the subsequent legal strategy made clear that segregation had afforded elites a crucial means of exercising social control over poor and working-class whites as well as blacks.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander