America’s Oligarchs
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The state of being too big to care.
Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a smal...
One of my lasting lessons from political science is that every major society has a pyramid structure of wealth and power. The United States is no exception. However, the UnitedRead...
We speak with political scientist Jeffrey Winters about his new book, The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies. Winters argues that democracy’s failure to address wea...
Democracy, for most of its existence, has managed to coexist with oligarchy, but only on the condition that oligarchs exert their influence quietly. Citizens, including ordinary Am...
There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time, waiting for the appropriate conditions to reveal itsel...
American billionaires are gobbling up more and more media outlets.
In May 2016, Elon Musk did something out of character that he has now spent years of his life trying to undo: He made what he believed to be a charitable donation. The world’s ric...
Putin has asked Russia’s oligarch class to voluntarily contribute to the state budget, according to reporting first published by the independent Russian outlet The Bell and followe...
The Nord, a 464-foot vessel, appears to be tied to Aleksei A. Mordashov, a Russian steel mogul who is under American and European sanctions.
Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a smal...
When we first began to chronicle the rise of the American oligarchy, Donald Trump was a private citizen, the future of the internet was the Metaverse, and Elon Musk was—well, if we...
Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a smal...
Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a smal...
California’s billionaires are freaking out. Like most obscenely wealthy Americans in the Trump era, plutocrats are bloated with paper wealth, fortified by legions of accountants, a...
There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British.
"These f**king oligarchs need to be taken down a peg." The post Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians appeared first on Futurism.
As America turns 250, two founding funders deserve a place alongside the statesmen and generals.
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s secon...
As the new elite is merging with the power structure, expect more feuds; if they stop being public, then we should know why.
From a billionaire’s perspective, a US Senate seat can be tantalizingly cheap. In 2022, Peter Thiel bought one for his former employee JD Vance with $15 million in independent camp...
We have a problem, but we aren't even trying to address it.
American Princelings By Dekleptocracy This week, the Trump family ran a coordinated charm offensive across Eastern Europe that would make a Kremlin political technologist blush....
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