As billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg grow more powerful, many are asking: Is America still a democracy, or is it turning into an oligarchy? The rich have always influenced ...

Violent attacks against ICE and law enforcement coincide with inflammatory rhetoric, as history shows extremist violence has ...

On July 7, a park in LA was invaded by heavily armed troops and federal immigration officers with 17 Humvees, tactical ...

Sanders is appearing in Fort Worth just short of 24 hours after President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facility sites. News of the strikes came to Sanders last ...

Democrats keep saying America is an “oligarchy.” Is that true? A political scientist explains “oligarchy” and argues that America has earned that label.

This is not the takeover of government by oligarchs—it is an aspiring oligarchy overthrowing an old one by seizing government ...

A recent Harvard Kennedy School Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation event focused on the increasing global influence of an elite group of wealthy and powerful tech leaders—the tech oligarch—and the ...

The question of whether the United States is an oligarchy has come to the fore, as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez draw major crowds around the ...

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Slotkin said so herself. Prompted by a journalist to respond to Sanders’ comment, she said, “I agree with everything he said, other than, my dad didn’t know what oligarchy meant.”In other ...

The oligarchic spectrum in Indonesia shows how economic power is translated into political dynastic power, says a University ...