The idea that the United States is becoming an oligarchy is no longer confined to academic debate or dystopian speculation.

The new administration has empowered a handful of extremely rich people to exert disproportionate influence over the government. There’s a word for that.

These new initiatives are not about shrinking the size of the federal government. They're about centralizing control in Trump's hands ...

Though Donald Trump attracted more support than ever from working-class voters in the 2024 US presidential election, he has long embraced an agenda that benefits the wealthiest Americans above all.

In Aristotelian terms, democracy is also a corrupt form of government in which the majority uses its power to abuse ...

Multiple countries, including New Zealand and Australia, are trying to use tax and competition rules to stem the growing ...

This is a massive head start, and cultural symmetry that seemed to make American AI predestined. Open AI is backed by a US$14 billion investment from Microsoft, and has access to the cloud ...

Plenty of his billionaire backers didn’t make the cut at his inauguration. The catbird seats were occupied instead by the ...

Then, just over halfway through, Biden made an epic, historic turn – and warned us that our democracy was being threatened by the rise of a powerful "oligarchy." Right here in America.

Sun, January 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM UTC ...