Certain business titans have made Mar-a-Lago a scene of such flagrant self-abnegation, ring-kissing, and genuflection that it ...

It would be easy to analyse Trump’s victory as the result of a slow and inevitable progression of ultra-reactionary and fascist ideas among American voters. We must also analyse Harris’s defeat, which ...

He was elected in 2016, at the tail end of a period when technological progress and social progress still seemed intertwined.

Trump and the DOGE bros make it look bad—but we can thank some oligarchs of centuries past for helping to lay the foundations ...

His policies will entail tax cuts and deregulation benefiting the rich and corporate, while cutting back on investments in education, environment, healthcare, and communities.” ...

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“Either we fight to create a government and an economy that works for all, or we continue to move rapidly down the path of oligarchy and the rule of the super-rich.” The former two-time ...

Our democracy is going away, thanks to President-elect Donald Trump. I've always gone with the definition that an oligarchy ...

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He was, after all, the man who instituted Roman autocracy while declaring the restoration of the ... but too many great men looked back wistfully to the old oligarchy. He was stabbed to death at the ...