Last Wednesday, during former President Joe Biden's farewell address, he warned that the U.S. could become an "oligarchy." Here's what it means ...

Populist authoritarianism is a well-known global phenomenon. However, the US is the only so-called consolidated democracy where its ascent has been eased by the systematic dismantling of legal limits ...

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg with a combined wealth of $886 billion attend Trump's inauguration. They symbolize US plutocracy, seated in front of Trump along with other billionaires, ...

(The United States is home to 759 billionaires and counting.) It is easy to see that our government has slipped into a plutocracy, enabled by the disastrous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in ...

The second Trump administration will be the richest democratically elected government in history. The Belgian-Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robeyns describes this as “plutocracy on steroids”. In her recent ...

The urgency of Europe’s creep towards plutocracy calls for a similarly urgent response. Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and ...

Is America becoming a plutocracy, in which the wealthiest rule to their personal advantage? Is it dangerous when an unelected and unconfirmed Elon Musk wields political influence despite his ...

Joel Westheimer is a professor of democracy and education at the University of Ottawa and education columnist for CBC Radio in Ontario. His most recent book is What Kind of Citizen? Educating Our ...

There’s a lot going on in the political realm right now, both on the state and national level. As the Wyoming legislature debates hot-button topics in the general session and President Trump continues ...