Trump’s presidency has brought a windfall to billionaires while hurting the poor. In these conditions, democracy cannot survive ...

Whether or not money is the root of all evil, the root of our current American oligarchy is a single Supreme Court case.

Johnson believes that the leaders of the American finance industry have turned into the sort of oligarchy more typical of the developing world, and that they have "captured" the government and its ...

Today, class, we’re going to look at how the American oligarchy works in the person of Stephen Schwarzman, the 33rd richest person in the world (net worth: $50 billion) and a man widely touted as “the ...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has spent much of this year crisscrossing the country on what he calls the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour — a grassroots campaign aimed at rallying Americans against what he ...

Describing how the French financial aristocracy accumulated wealth under the July Monarchy following the defeat of the 1830 revolution, Karl Marx wrote in The Class Struggles in France of “the top of ...

On Monday, the charity Oxfam published a report on the growth of social inequality in the United States, titled “Unequal: The Rise of a New American Oligarchy.” The report notes that the “past year ...

Across the ideological spectrum, anger toward the superrich is a major source of movement energy. Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a protest against the nomination of Linda McMahon to serve as ...