Justin Leroy’s The Lowest Freedom points toward the limits of liberty under racial capitalism. Among race scholars, it ...

You have to admire the moxie of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to bring their “Fight Oligarchy” tour to one of the most educated cities in Arizona. I’ve not done the risk analysis, but I ...

In his farewell address, outgoing US President Joe Biden warned "an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy." The ...

For years, political experts have warned that America is in a state of democratic decline. Now some say democracy in the US could be giving way to something else entirely: an oligarchy. That's an ...

Re “It’s About Ideology, Not Oligarchy,” by Ross Douthat (column, March 23): Ross Douthat asks the right questions in this column: Why have Elon Musk and the other Silicon Valley hotshots swung hard ...

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George Washington’s farewell address, a long valedictory letter written largely by Alexander Hamilton, and published in Claypoole’s Daily Advertiser, in September, 1796, was an eloquent rationale for ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an “oligarchy” of tech billionaires. But what exactly is an oligarchy?

Mehring Books has published “Oligarchy: Trump and the Breakdown of American Democracy.” Posted below is the Foreword, written by the book’s editor David North. The book can be ordered here. Historians ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. A generation later, Arthur E. Morgan ...

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he gives his farewell address Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington [AP Photo/Mandel Ngan/Pool] President Joe Biden’s farewell ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders delivers a fiery foreign policy address ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, warning that 'oligarchy is ascending' while 'democracy is in retreat.' Speaking at Riverside ...