The new administration has empowered a handful of extremely rich people to exert disproportionate influence over the ...

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

The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.

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

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

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

President Donald Trump’s rise is not an anomaly – he is the product of forces set in motion 50 years ago, driven by massive ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden sounded the alarm as he prepared to leave the White House. Speaking to the American people from the Oval ...

As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading ...

With all the current talk of an American oligarchy, I’ve been wondering what we now mean when we say “oligarch.” The word ...