OLIGARCHY GETS A BAD RAP. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Peter Thiel, and their ilk are perhaps more accurately styled as plutocrats, for they have few accomplishments other than their wealth to ...

Anti-representative democracy sees the electoral-representative structures common to contemporary democracies as incompatible with true democracy and in need of reform, if not outright elimination.

Across the ideological spectrum, anger toward the superrich is a major source of movement energy. Stop me if you’ve heard ...

President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech, hoping to seal a legacy overshadowed by Democrats' failure to stop President-elect Donald Trump ...

In February, the economist Gabriel Zucman posted an absolutely stunning graphic online that depicts the wealth of America richest 0.00001 percent as a share of our nation’s total household wealth. The ...

A treacherous alliance is growing that will undermine democratic institutions in the US and elsewhere The United States presents itself as the beacon of democracy in contrast to the autocracies of ...

The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: “oligarchy.” It was part of Joe Biden’s farewell address; it’s central to Senator Bernie Sanders’s barnstorming; it shows ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are joining forces on the road again. "Today, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had," Sanders said in ...

On May 9, Filipinos will elect a new president who will hold the key to the public vault and become commander in chief of the armed forces. In the dialectics of materialism, bread and spear have ...