Who rules now? American elites in the 1990s

The US is not ruled by a large 'overclass' or 'white patriarchy' but there is no evidence yet of feminist manifestations of power in American society. Marxist and populist ideas about the elite in the US espoused by intellectuals of a previous generation have gone obsolete.
Arguments about the structure of power in the United States have a long history and range from Marxist and Marxist-influenced populist interpretations such as those of C. Wright Mills and [...]