| 单词 | oligarchy |
| 例句 | The families of the oligarchy forgot all about the barrel organ, and Marcos became the star attraction of the season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z According to Fifi, the alta sociedad, the high-class ladies of the oligarchy who form a kind of club, not unlike a country club, are delighted by this juicy bit of gossip. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The Spartans held Athens and Thebes by establishing oligarchies there; yet they lost them both. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s not hard for me to believe that the Bureau would do bad things, because every government I’ve ever known has done bad things, even the Abnegation oligarchy, of which my father was the head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I believe in oligarchy,” and thirty pencils wrote an approximation of the word “oligarchy,” knowing that it would appear on some test at some future time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The power of the oligarchy, fueled by trusts and giant holding companies, was too great, and appeals to racial solidarity were ultimately irresistible to white Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So there is an oligarchy that will inherit this.” Luke Janklow: Not Exactly Bookish 2013-06-14T20:57:36Z So if you don't care about them, fine, but find an organized way to shoot and train on a weekly basis so that you're not just a victim, or a subject of an oligarchy. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z They therefore become ever more indebted – apart from a small elite oligarchy who are allowed to cream off their 10% for their compliance. TV review: Diamond Jubilee and Surviving Progress 2012-06-04T22:30:04Z But hip-hop isn’t the oligarchy it once was, New York isn’t the hub it once was, and Hot 97 isn’t the only game in this diminished town. Critic’s Notebook: A Summer Jam, Proudly Local Yet Less Sure of Its Place 2013-06-03T16:20:54Z Capitalism’s victory over communism in the Cold War was a clear victory for freedom, but the triumphalism of the global oligarchy has profoundly impoverished our intellectual life. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z He was a nonconformist critical of “the oligarchy, the power establishment elite.” The Story of California Told Through One Family 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z If ever there was a case that an information democracy, even a very messy one, is preferable to an information oligarchy, then the history of nutrition advice is it. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The mainstream media is a misogynistic, corporatist oligarchy that Trump played to his benefit. Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z For those of you hiding out deep in the woods, it’s set in a dystopian future North America, a continent divided into downtrodden, fearful districts ruled by a decadent, luxurious oligarchy in the Capitol. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z To explain Trump’s support as a revolt against oligarchy, Lind has to accomplish a few things. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Genoa, like Venice, was also a republic, and an oligarchy. Perspective | Genoa and the Baroque: The most spectacular art you’ve never heard of 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Once the oligarchy knows everything about you, after you’ve been willingly equipped with digital contact lenses that let them see what you see, it can fry the Internet we have and upload its own. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The word “oligarchy,” from the Greek, means rule by a few. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z That might lead back to tyranny or oligarchy. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The suit claimed that an opinion piece published 11 months earlier had defamed the campaign by asserting that “the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy . . . had an overarching deal.” A history of the Trump War on Media — the obsession not even coronavirus could stop 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z In “In the Wake” that character largely is Ellen, a zealously liberal New Yorker in her 30s who worries that deregulation and tax cuts are tipping the United States into oligarchy. Pushing the Spotlight Away From Herself 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z And nonfiction that covers very big topics — democracy versus oligarchy in America, five centuries of hurricanes and a German couple who helped lead the resistance against the Nazis. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Eschewing kings and preferring city-states to an overarching government, the Greeks tried democracy, oligarchy, tyranny and, in the case of Sparta, austere, militaristic utopianism. Tonight's TV highlights: Edwardian Farm 2010-11-24T00:05:00Z The latest is a book by Warren Treadgold, “The University We Need,” which posits that universities are in trouble, controlled by a leftist oligarchy hell-bent on abandoning a traditional education. We don’t need to “rethink college” — we need to rethink the arguments against it 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z The wolves of oligarchy are waiting for that darkness. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The exposure of Bezos doesn't do anything to change the state of corporate oligarchy, or unlimited privatization, or the lousy economy that has ruined any semblance of security for milliennials. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z When he thinks about what the oligarchy has done to America, he tends to think of white men as the principal victims. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z But there's this confluence between a real-life event and the insane oligarchy and corruption that was existing in Hollywood. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But they also knew that having honest outsiders try to fight the Goliaths of corruption, oligarchy, Russian imperialism and international pressures would never be easy. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z The chummy, glitzy event seemed more like a celebration of U.S. oligarchy than the First Amendment. Samantha Bee's brutal Trump taunts: Why her Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner is necessary 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z A decaying oligarchy perched uneasily atop the remains of a much more advanced civilization, Caeli-Amur is in the midst of a rebellion led by disaffected mechanics and murderers. Fantasy worlds get an upgrade with alternate technology 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z It's possible that – by shifting it away from the global film oligarchy – this might raise the standard of the material, and the credibility of the mission. Urbane landscape: are city anthology films just a way of boosting tourism? 2012-07-03T16:14:47Z Somewhere in here is the kernel of a good book: Lind’s original focus was oligarchy, and there is a way to end it, he says. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Lind’s originating interest seems to be this: American democracy worked in a certain way in the three decades after World War II, it stopped working that way, and oligarchy ensued. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s an oligarchy built on a currency that accrues through sacrifice: protruding pelvic bones, whittled limbs and prominent clavicles. Review | In the darkly comic boarding-school world of ‘Oligarchy,’ being thin is everything 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The past quarter century has seen two different generations of Russian oligarchy. Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Seeing Wall Street goons lose millions was a source of much online mirth, a joyful reaction to the common sentiment that we live in an undemocratic oligarchy in which we have no control. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z It was the time of the Arab Spring, which began in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya as protests, initially peaceful, against corruption and oligarchy. Sebastian Junger’s New Documentary About Syria 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The sections about Argentina’s oligarchy, and the exploitation on which they thrived, are so poetically rendered that you relate to the horror of dictatorship purely through your emotions. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Ribeyro is synonymous with individual and family frustration in the era of the urban oligarchy, which he commits to the page with undeniable objectivity. Read Your Way Through Lima 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z In this Sunday’s Book Review, three new books are reviewed that respectively examine the rise of the American oligarchy, the decline of moderate Republicans and the Tea Party’s core beliefs about government. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Bipolar America 2012-01-06T22:10:19Z Civil journalists have been increasingly vocal of late about the president's failure to honour his promises, the stagnating economic reforms as well as growing oligarchy and nepotism. Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Why is reformist Uzbek leader arresting bloggers? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z After she announced her presidential run, he began lambasting her, branding Galvez an "employee of the oligarchy." Dinosaur-dressing Mexican senator adds bite to presidential race 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z “People have the expectation that everything will change, but it is not true because there are very deep interests of the country’s oligarchy.” U.S. Guatemalans hope presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo may be light at end of tunnel 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The words were chilling, describing a type of criminality and treachery formerly associated with overseas oligarchies and banana republics. The way TV news covers Trump's legal problems could make or break democracy 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z Bemoaning the races' vitriol at the time, one prominent conservative commentator compared the West Texas billionaires to an "oligarchy," hellbent on destroying anyone who "didn't get on their knees and kiss the ring." Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z As Turchin notes, "modern democracies are not immune from the iron law of oligarchy." A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z John Adams most feared the rise of an oligarchy, an elite of property-owning families who would seize control of politics. Why the right is so terrified of "woke": There are truths it just can't face 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z It is what John Quincy Adams, fearing oligarchy, called "the smokescreen of democracy." We can make the American flag great again 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z It's sometimes called the iron law of oligarchy: People in power are tempted to turn this power to their own selfish ends. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “What we are trying to do is go after networks. We are going after oligarchy networks, Kremlin-controlled networks and those that are enabling the illicit finance regime, the money laundering, the sanctions evasion.” Cyprus labors to shield reputation amid new US, UK action on Russian ‘sanctions evasion network’ 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "Unfortunately, modern democracies are not immune from the iron law of oligarchy," he notes. A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z As a former president, Carter tracked King’s later economic observations, declaring the U.S. an oligarchy, rather than a fully functioning democracy, because of wealth inequality and money in politics. Carter and the Kings: A friendship and alliance — but after MLK’s assassination 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Such naiveté allowed members of that class to enrich themselves, fostering the rise of an oligarchy that sought to corrupt the government, and periodically succeeded. Clarence Thomas, Ken Paxton and Donald Trump: The corrupting influence of oligarchy 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z So, again, they gradually began to reconfigure the economy to serve their selfish ends — the iron law of oligarchy bit again in the late '70s and '80s; the Reagan revolution was part of that. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In short, we are talking about the international arrangements of oligarchies and kleptocracies. The GOP's criminality goes international 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z After 500 BCE, a compromise government called oligarchy tended to replace both aristocracies and tyrannies. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately following the war, Sparta established oligarchies of local aristocrats in the city-states that had been democracies under the Delian League. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Sanders calls for “real politics,” an undeluded coming together of working people to confront Big Pharma, Big Finance, the insurance industry, the “corporate elite” — the forces that are turning the country into a plutocratic oligarchy. Perspective | Carter, Bernie, Reagan: Who is the best audiobook narrator? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z He added: “We had something of an oligarchy down here for a lot of years, and now we’re making a transition from it.” With Murdaugh’s Conviction, a Century of Influence Unravels 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z As oligarchies go, the US constitutes a multi-pyramid hybrid form of oligarchical rule as Americans enjoy many features of a constitutional democracy. The GOP's criminality goes international 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z After a first job as minister of education, she threw herself into the fray in 2015 and started her own party, which went on to survive challenges from the entrenched political oligarchy. Moldova’s Pro-Europe Leader Tries to Thwart Russia’s Influence 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Athens was the birthplace of democracy, whereas Sparta was an oligarchy headed by two kings. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “They don’t care about democracy, what they want is to continue with the oligarchy, the rule of the rich,” the president said. Mexican president disparages pro-democracy demonstrators 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “If you prefer democracy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues that actually matter, it’s pretty refreshing to see it,” Carlson said. 'Madness.' 'Chaos.' 'Stupid.' How the McCarthy stalemate is playing on Fox News 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z In this context, as David Graeber has observed, fascism travels easily in a society "with extremely limited political horizons, indifferent to the habits of oligarchy, as though no other politics are possible." Fascist politics, the return of antisemitism and the "disconnected present" 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Global supply chains were supposed to lower costs, boost profits and enable democratic values to seep into the terrain of oligarchies, dictatorships and autocracies. Computer chip ban signals new era as Biden and Xi meet 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Sparta was an oligarchy whose elite class of soldier-citizens alone participated in government, while Athens developed a democracy in which all adult male citizens participated. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “So this more like an oligarchy approach than the old school billionaires who would drop lots of money but then they didn’t want anybody to know their names.” Musk’s partisan tweets call Twitter neutrality into question 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z It's a phrase they essentially invented, although it was occasionally used by the Confederacy during its later years when they tried to suppress poor white voters who opposed the oligarchy. Republicans pointed a weapon at the heart of our democracy — in 1964. We're feeling it now 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z In the money race between America’s billionaires and small donors, the emerging political oligarchy is showing staying power. Fueled by Billionaires, Political Spending Shatters Records Again 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The great California historian Kevin Starr wrote that “since its emergence in the early 20th century, Los Angeles had been a city in which the oligarchy exerted decisive influence.” Opinion | Meet the billionaire taking on L.A.’s progressive machine 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Progressives have overarching responsibilities to oppose the corporate power that ushers in oligarchy and also to oppose the far-right forces that lead to tyranny. Leftists, don't gaslight yourselves: It's time to unite against the fascist Republicans 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z The group finances itself through kidnappings and extortion as it claims to be fighting the oligarchy. Paraguay rebel leader Villalba killed in clash with army 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Money from vast reserves of natural gas and oil flows to the oligarchy, who often funnel it into property in France. In Algeria, Veiled From the World, Past and Future Are Shrouded, Too 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Such jockeying has created a cycle in which “elections are a periodic recalibration of oligarchy” because the West has “effectively given up on the country as being anything other than tribal.” Bosnia election expected to re-legitimize a failing system 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The two ruling parties slavishly serve the dictates of the war industry, global corporations and the oligarchy, to which they has given huge tax cuts. The return of fascism: Fueled by widening inequality and the bankruptcy of liberalism 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Moreover, when Mendel acknowledges that the nationalization of PrivatBank in 2016 was a significant achievement in the fight against oligarchy, there is not a single mention of Poroshenko, only “the Ukrainian political leadership.” Review | From a former aide, insights on Zelensky — and pride in Ukraine 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z If the Lords had too much power, the result would be oligarchy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In many socialist countries the government is an oligarchy: only members of a certain political party or ruling elite can participate in government. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z "That is not what democracy is about. That is what oligarchy is about." “Profoundly wrong”: Pro-Israel AIPAC funneled millions to defeat Jewish progressive Andy Levin 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Both ruling parties serve the dictates of the war industry, global corporations and the oligarchy, to which they have given huge tax cuts. The return of fascism: Fueled by widening inequality and the bankruptcy of liberalism 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z What causes a society to be a democracy or an autocracy or an oligarchy or whatnot? How the states went nuts: Democratic backsliding in state capitals — and how to defeat it 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z If it were, we’d be ruled by a benevolent oligarchy of nine. Supreme Court: ‘Leaving it to the people’ 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z As discussed earlier, another nondemocratic form of government is oligarchy, in which a handful of elite members of society, often those who belong to a particular political party, hold all political power. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Academics, looking for an exit, ignored the attacks by the ruling oligarchy. Christian fascism is right here, right now: After Roe, can we finally see it? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The ruling oligarchy doesn't take the subway or fly on commercial jets. There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “When you live in an oligarchy, you have to look for the good oligarchs,” said Ms. Rice, adding that she was supporting Ms. Bass because of her ability to form coalitions. The Mall Mogul and Former Republican Who Could Lead Los Angeles 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z His potential administration "is not a minority oligarchy governing Colombia, it's a multicolor democracy," Petro told a recent rally. Colombia's Petro: firebrand former rebel vows profound change 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The “slave power” thesis was the belief that a slaveholding oligarchy ran the United States for its own benefit. Opinion | It’s Not Looking Too Good for Government of the People, by the People and for the People 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The only thing the ruling oligarchy truly cares about is unfettered exploitation and profit. Christian fascism is right here, right now: After Roe, can we finally see it? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Many whom we spoke to then had seen Turkish secularism as the means by which an entitled Kemalist oligarchy preserved its power. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “The country’s democratic institutions have already been battered by six years of the Duterte presidency and the rise of online disinformation, alongside the decades-long corrosives of oligarchy, graft, and poor governance,” he said. Marcos presidency complicates US efforts to counter China 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z "This is what oligarchy and corporate greed are all about," Sanders, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, tweeted Friday. Sanders speaks out against law-breaking corporations 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Or, as Clark put it: “This is yet another example of how we’re falling prey to oligarchies. Men with billions of dollars who get to decide what are our communications look like.” Column: With Elon Musk in charge, it's the beginning of the end for #BlackTwitter 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Where a democracy sees the people utilize electoral politics — typically through their elected representatives – to exert control over the nation, an oligarchy relies on a small group of wealthy people who wield disproportionate power. Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not "free speech" 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z "At every step of the way, the financial oligarchy and its political representatives ensured that profits were prioritized over human lives and well-being," they added. As other countries rebound, falling US life expectancy shows failures of COVID response 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z What makes American oligarchy different from its Russian counterpart is that it operates at significantly greater arm’s length, driven by lobbying and campaign contributions rather than outright corruption. With ‘Stealth Politics,’ Billionaires Make Sure Their Money Talks 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “The people must rise against the elite bloc, against the oligarchy personified by Emmanuel Macron,” she said, adding, “We will win.” A Reinvented Marine Le Pen Threatens to Upend French Elections 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z "We'd have to cut money transfers so that he doesn't build his own oligarchy with our money." Orban's victory puts Hungary on collision course with EU 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Almost a decade ago, researchers from Princeton University noted that the U.S. was becoming more of an oligarchy and plutocracy and less a democratic republic. Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not "free speech" 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z By themselves, theorists agreed that each of these systems was vulnerable to a corresponding abuse—tyranny, oligarchy, or anarchy—that could overturn liberty and order. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Page acknowledges that American oligarchy is different — it is embedded in the political system. With ‘Stealth Politics,’ Billionaires Make Sure Their Money Talks 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Now Vance even attacks Republican elites, saying, “Establishment Republican apologies for our oligarchy should always come with the following disclaimer: ‘Big Tech pays my salary.’” Opinion | Ivy League Republicans’ phony rebellion against the ‘elites’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z So what does the Constitution have to say about economic oligarchy? Review | How to use the Constitution to rein in American oligarchs and save democracy 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z But rather than properly contextualizing Musk's behavior in the history of Silicon Valley or oligarchy, the legacy news media rely on trivial reporting about the cult of personality surrounding Musk. Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not "free speech" 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z But it gave a platform to American dissidents who challenged corporate capitalism, imperialism, war and the American oligarchy. In war, there are no "worthy" or "unworthy" victims: That's how we justify our crimes 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "One of the big factors is, of course, the proximity to President Putin," Psaki said on future energy sanctions aimed at the higher rungs of Russia's oligarchy. Psaki pressed on whether US financing Putin's war by buying Russian oil 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z They formed an oligarchy, a government ruled by a few powerful people. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Jacksonian Democrats were doomed, for example, because they excluded Black Americans from their republic of farmers and laborers, unleashing the enslavers to build an oligarchy that threatened democracy throughout the nation. Review | How to use the Constitution to rein in American oligarchs and save democracy 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z An oligarchy is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Their study gave rise to a flurry of stories characterizing America as an oligarchy, echoing Occupy Wall Street's critique of the 1%. The center cannot hold: Manchin and Sinema are wrecking America — here's how to beat them 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Russia is an authoritarian aggressor in the current crisis; Ukraine is a flawed democracy but a more decent regime than Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy. Opinion | How to Retreat From Ukraine 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z Class war in the United States has established what amounts to oligarchy. Where we are now: The dire state of America in 2022 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Except that the framers had no way of anticipating that a novel form of oligarchy would soon emerge to challenge constitutional democracies: moneyed aristocracies ruling by virtue not of formal titles but of concentrated wealth. Review | How to use the Constitution to rein in American oligarchs and save democracy 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Dictatorships are sometimes identified as either autocracies or oligarchies. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy,” economist and UC Berkeley professor Robert B. Reich writes in “The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It.” 10 books to help you understand inequality — and possible solutions 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z They want at best an oligarchy and at worst a dictatorship. Column: Jan. 6 is not a political Rorschach test. It is a flashbulb memory, fixed and irrevocable 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Historically, the norm has been varying shades of oligarchy, occasionally punctuated by moments in which elite interests seemed to coincide with popular ones. Opinion | Feeling Hopeless About Today’s Politics? 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Caracas vigorously denies responsibility, saying Colombia’s right-wing “oligarchy” fails to curtail armed groups in a deliberate strategy to destabilize leftist-ruled Venezuela. Colombian troop surge seeks to stem drug-linked Venezuelan border violence 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Those people see this campaign as a way of defunding and ultimately destroying public schools, on the road toward privatizing every aspect of American society in order to create a totally unregulated corporate oligarchy. Right's cynical attack on "critical race theory": Old racist poison in a new bottle 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Trump World is an apartheid society, a Christian nationalist theocracy and a plutocratic oligarchy. "Trump World" is no joke — and it wants to devour American democracy 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kravchuk privatized some 12,000 Ukrainian companies, handing them out to political insiders and cementing the foundation for decades of oligarchy and corruption. Why did prominent Democrats invite anti-LGBTQ Ukrainians to National Prayer Breakfast? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The oligarchs embrace a faux morality of woke culture and identity politics, which is anti-politics, to give themselves the veneer of liberalism, or at least the veneer of an enlightened oligarchy. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The dissidents do not consider normal soldiers their enemies, he added, but will fight “the machinery of the oligarchy”. FARC dissidents say they carried out Colombia bombing, target was U.S. advisors 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z America is already to some degree an oligarchy. Rev. William J. Barber II: America is now at the "most critical time, between life and death" 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z "This is what oligarchy and a corrupt political system are all about," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, on Twitter. Democrats negotiate against themselves to shield billionaires’ wealth and make it harder to get aid 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z They were integral to turning the tide of battle and finally defeating Lee's forces and the Confederate slaveholding oligarchy. Robert E. Lee and the Trumpists: Why a Confederate "hero" is still important 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead, we will almost certainly follow the path that Russia and Hungary have trod, embracing Friedman's economic policies and the authoritarian strongman politics of oligarchy necessary to enforce them. The crisis of neoliberalism: America arrives at one of history’s great crossroads 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z “There are no untouchables in the Venezuelan oligarchy,” he said. Hyperinflation, US dollars pricing out Venezuelan consumers 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z “They did not prevent the rise of the oligarchy,” he said. Why Tunisia’s Promise of Democracy Struggles to Bear Fruit 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z He has tried to frame support for universal adult suffrage in the U.S. as a matter of "global oligarchy," an unsubtle head nod to racist conspiracy theories fueling the most fascist fringes of the GOP. GOP's race to the bottom: Who can be the most obnoxious troll? 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Autocracies, unlike oligarchies, make for engaging political theater. America's fate looks bleak: Will it be oligarchy or autocracy? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z In April, he briefly struck a pose of anti-tech populism, tweeting: "Establishment Republican apologies for our oligarchy should always come with the following disclaimer: 'Big Tech pays my salary.'" J.D. Vance apologizes for calling Trump "reprehensible" and vowing not to vote for him 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Pendley told the agent the he hoped it would trigger a backlash from “the oligarchy” that would convince Americans to act against a “dictatorship.” Texas man pleads guilty to planned Amazon data center attack 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Brimming with contempt for America’s “technology oligarchy,” Mr. Vance said he sees a political revolution as the only answer to restoring conservative principles. J.D. Vance, author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ poised for Senate run, crusade against ‘woke’ America 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The tech companies, he says, are “draining prosperity and power away from the great middle of our society and creating, as they do, a new oligarchy.” Review | In Josh Hawley’s book on Big Tech, his persona risks undermining his arguments 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z “This is a big tech, corporate oligarchy without standing and it’s gone too far,” he tweeted. Trump, Republicans express outrage over extension of Facebook ban 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Blasting big money in politics, Carter also has called the U.S. “an oligarchy” rather than a fully functioning “democracy.” Biden and Carter, longtime allies, reconnect in Georgia 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z We can have an American Republic or a global oligarchy, and it’s time for choosing. JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z O’Keefe claims to be battling an oligarchy working to subvert the truth, but he’s also failed to address the profound ethical violations that he and his staff repeatedly perform. Project Veritas founder wants to sue Twitter for defamation over recent suspension 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Damaging them would frustrate the "oligarchy" - or small group of elites - in power in the United States, he believed. FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The selection process for moderators themselves also varies, but looks less like a democracy than a benevolent, self-perpetuating oligarchy. Can democracy work on the internet? Reddit tells a mixed story 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Why don’t they see him as part of the oligarchy? In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Now that Silicon Valley executives have sat on President Biden’s transition team, the oligarchy is operating in the shadow of the Oval Office. Opinion | Tech titans are now at the table 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, a resurgent left blends opposition to Trumpism with its own accusations of economic rigging and charges that the U.S. political order has been corrupted by white supremacy and oligarchy since its inception. Opinion | America is not exceptional after all 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z And yes, it is absolutely true that America is not so much a democracy any longer, we are an oligarchy. Author and radio host Thom Hartmann on the "struggle for democracy" and the road ahead 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z “We are headed toward a situation in which big tech controls the flow of information and the election process. These are the first things any oligarchy wants to control when it takes power.” Zuckerberg paying for election operations, vote counting across U.S. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z You recount how America has had times when an oligarchy almost obtained complete power over the nation. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z To neglect its content is to convert the court to an oligarchy unanswerable to the people in elections as it decides on its own what the Constitution should say. Save the court and save America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “Preventing the oligarchy from running the show seems wishful thinking at this point unless the Lebanese people defy the odds by forcing a new reality.” France tries forcing change on Lebanon’s politicians 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Trump speaks the language of authoritarian populism but acts in the interests of America's emerging oligarchy. Labor Day 2020: The power has shifted 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead of following long-accepted socio-economic practices, President Trump uses lies and illusion to create a febrile web of illicitness — part oligarchy, part plutocracy and part kleptocracy — that is characteristic of so many developing nations. 5 epic failures of Donald Trump that illustrate the U.S.’s decline 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z You see outgoing President Donald Trump as part of today’s oligarchy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But Alexei Navalny, who is in critical condition in Germany after a suspected poisoning in Russia on Thursday, is more than just Russia’s leading Putin critic — he challenges the entire Kremlin oligarchy. How Navalny combined protests and anti-corruption campaigns to take on the Kremlin 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z “We need an unprecedented response — a movement like never before of people who are prepared to stand up and fight for democracy and decency and against greed, oligarchy and bigotry,” the independent from Vermont said. On Democratic convention’s first night, speakers blame Trump for America’s woes 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z No, America isn’t simply an oligarchy in which the rich always get what they want. Opinion | Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z As the titular play on Marie Antoinette’s famous quote suggests, the authors believe that American society is moving toward control by a selfish oligarchy, but they consider the tweeter in chief more consequence than cause. Review | Explaining the GOP’s mix of plutocrats and populists 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Is the growing information technology industry, including social media giants, contributing to another oligarchy ascendancy? In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z America's emerging corporate oligarchy used this faulty academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust. Monopoly mayhem: corporations win, workers lose 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “The Lebanese people are being subjected to a systematic and organized theft by the ruling oligarchy and the banks on daily basis,” he said. Lebanon’s plea to skeptical expats: Come visit, bring cash 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But while you shouldn’t be too much of a cynic, it remains true that America is less of a democracy and more of an oligarchy than we like to think. Opinion | Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The emergence of the oligarchy, of wealth and power at the top. Robert Reich explains how oligarchs are "cashing in" on the pandemic 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z You begin your book saying, “Democracy is rule of, by, and for the people: oligarchy is rule of, by, and for the rich.” In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The Northern victory, for a time, did away with the threat that oligarchy posed. Review | Southern elites, Western libertarians and the conservative coalition 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The real divide is between democracy and oligarchy. Robert Reich: Coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to overcome oligarchy 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The oligarchy, which was angry with Morales' government and its socialism, used every mechanism to undermine the election of 2019. Elon Musk is South America's neo-conquistador 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z While Sanders’s fellow candidates didn’t parrot his vocabulary and denounce “oligarchs” and “oligarchy,” they spoke expansively about gross income inequality and the need to tackle it. Opinion | Bernie Sanders Has Already Won the Democratic Primary 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z You recount how America has had times when an oligarchy almost obtained complete power over the nation. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “We are a democracy, not an oligarchy!” he shouted at a rally in Tacoma, Wash., on Monday. Opinion | This presidential race is a New York hate-throuple of white, 70-something males 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The way to overcome oligarchy is for the rest of us to join together and form a multiracial, multiethnic coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class Americans fighting for democracy. Robert Reich: Coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to overcome oligarchy 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Morales' opponent — Carlos Mesa — and other senior leaders of the oligarchy's political parties openly said long before the election that Morales could only win by fraud. Elon Musk is South America's neo-conquistador 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “He’s part of the oligarchy,” Zahn told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday. Bernie Sanders’ surrogate rips Bloomberg after debate, says former mayor is 'part of the oligarchy' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z A second turning point in stopping an oligarchy from running the country was when the Great Depression led straight to the New Deal and major anti-oligarchic reforms. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The word "oligarchy" comes from the Greek word oligarkhes, meaning "few to rule or command." Buying the presidency 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The oligarchy of the Trumps and the Kushners, however, is something else. Review | How the conservative revolution led to the Trump-Kushner oligarchy 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The word “oligarchy” comes from the Greek word oligarkhes, meaning “few to rule or command”. Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms | Robert Reich 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Between an oligarchy in technocratic form and outsider populism, Lind predicts that oligarchs with money and connections will win nine times out of 10. The new class war: did a liberal elite pave the way for rise of Trump? 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z If we can make democracy a single issue for voters, we can defeat oligarchies. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Democrats must stand squarely on the side of democracy against oligarchy. Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump | Robert Reich 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z The replacement of the last decade’s oligarchs by the Trump-Kushner oligarchy is less the natural conclusion to our political drama than a surprise twist in the final act. Review | How the conservative revolution led to the Trump-Kushner oligarchy 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Even a system that calls itself a democracy can become an oligarchy if power becomes concentrated in the hands of a corporate and financial elite. Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms | Robert Reich 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z From the American oligarchy — billionaires, CEOs, corporate executives, and the denizens of Wall Street — who are funding the Republican Party and bankrolling Trump and his propaganda machine. Robert Reich: The big picture on the impeachment trial 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z I devote the last part of my book on what specific steps we can take to break oligarchy and restore democracy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Although Clinton and Obama faced increasingly hostile Republican congresses, they could have rallied the working class and built a coalition to grab back power from the emerging oligarchy. Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump | Robert Reich 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z “The Wall Street banks are the new American oligarchy,” we wrote then, “a group that gains political power because of its economic power, and then uses that political power for its own benefit.” Review | How the conservative revolution led to the Trump-Kushner oligarchy 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The continuation of the war — now as assassination and intimidation — favors the oligarchy. What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z She added, "Haters gonna hate & deniers will deny. They will deny logic, science, and environmental consensus in order to protect oligarchy." Climate experts agree: 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z You begin your book saying, “Democracy is rule of, by, and for the people: oligarchy is rule of, by, and for the rich.” In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z "The southern white oligarchy used its economic power to organize the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups," writes Zinn. Moderate Democrats are celebrating MLK. He was disgusted by them 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Dos Santos and her half-brothers and sisters are among the most prominent members of the oligarchy of powerful families in Angola. Revealed: how Angolan ruler's daughter used her status to build $2bn empire 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z This extreme violence undermines the possibility of democracy and allows the oligarchy to be re-elected in polling booths where the Left not dare enter. What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z For 20 years, Hungary was a functioning democracy; today, it's a corrupt oligarchy. If you want a preview of what four more years of Trump could bring, visit Hungary 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Why don’t they see him as part of the oligarchy? In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Hawley, however, says, “It’s no coincidence that the breakdown in community and the rise of oligarchy have happened together. They are both the products of a worldview.” Opinion | Market-skeptic Republicans like Josh Hawley have it wrong 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z These believers were pushed by a callous, heartless corporate society and rapacious oligarchy into the arms of charlatans. Onward, Christian fascists 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The combination of the CIA, Nazis, and the oligarchies of the region is not something from the past: Brazil's culture secretary—Roberto Alvim—recently plagiarized a speech from the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z By that accounting, Sanders should be expected to be even lower on the list, given his unabashed critique of all forms of oligarchy, especially that of the DNC establishment. The "Bernie Blackout" appears to be over: How will the media cover the Sanders campaign now? 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z If we can make democracy a single issue for voters, we can defeat oligarchies. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “The big Filipino families, the oligarchies, are not able to transition away from agriculture because they can’t transition to manufacturing,” says Lisandro E. Claudio, a Southeast Asian historian at the University of California, Berkeley. Philippine Peasants Were Promised Land. Staking a Claim Can Be Deadly. 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The vast majority of what had been our free press system – content creators and content distributors – is in the hands of non-democratic business oligarchies. Save the Free Press initiative: A public service of The Seattle Times 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z This is the democracy of the oligarchy in Latin America today. What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z He then said the U.S. was becoming an "oligarchy" with an economy that serves only the "one percent." Bernie Sanders' awkward 'And I'm white as well' remark draws mixed -- and puzzled -- online reactions 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z I devote the last part of my book on what specific steps we can take to break oligarchy and restore democracy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “I sometimes believe that not everyone understands the severe seriousness of impeachment. It is how an oligarchy operates. It is how third-world countries operate...the vote is what counts,” he said. Rep. Van Drew, ahead of expected party switch, compares impeachment to how 'third-world countries operate' 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z For 14 years, Bolivian Indigenous movements broke the spell of invulnerability surrounding colonial oligarchy and the European-descended elite — and they still pose a significant challenge. Is Bolivia turning into a rightwing military dictatorship? | Nick Estes 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The Koch oligarchy machine, for example, has branches in every state, and pretty much every county. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z And the benefits of that sale will not go to improving the well-being of Bolivia’s indigenous population; they will enrich the transnational firms and the old oligarchy of Bolivia. The coup in Bolivia has everything to do with the screen you’re using to read this 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The first followed the invention of the cotton gin, which gave birth to a “rigidified oligarchy that eventually challenged the power of the nation itself.” In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s between the establishment and the anti-establishment, the oligarchy and the rest. Warren doesn't just frighten billionaires – she scares the whole establishment | Robert Reich 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Nor is this country becoming an oligarchy, another oft-made but exaggerated allegation. Opinion | The future of capitalism is a crucial issue in 2020. The debate isn’t simple. 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z This system of government is among the most ancient, stretching back 7,000 years, and is known to political scientists as oligarchy. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Certainly, their relative positions in the struggle between oligarchy and democracy was clear to those who watched Friday’s testimony. The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy | Heather Cox Richardson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z You see outgoing President Donald Trump as part of today’s oligarchy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z If you believe in capitalism and democracy, as opposed to oligarchy, you shouldn’t believe in billionaires. Think billionaires are just super-rich people? Big mistake | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “The remains of Franco remain incrusted in the economic oligarchies and parts of the state apparatus from which they must be unearthed forever.” Franco’s exhumation backfires on Pedro Sanchez, Spanish far-left 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The Civil War could thus be recast as a war between oligarchy and democracy, where democracy won by a whisker. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z On Friday, the demonstration of the battle between the rule of law and oligarchy became personal. The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy | Heather Cox Richardson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Is the growing information technology industry, including social media giants, contributing to another oligarchy ascendancy? In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z After all, it describes an entirely unstable economy that inevitably degenerates to complete oligarchy, and there are no complete oligarchies in the world. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z This is why the oligarchy is so worried about Warren’s rise to frontrunner status in some polls. Trump and Wall Street fear Warren and Sanders – they speak for the people | Robert Reich 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z For oligarchy to totally take down democracy, only three things are initially needed: Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z In this sea of protest, a common factor is the increased willingness of undemocratic regimes, ruling elites and wealthy oligarchies to use force to crush threats to their power – while hypocritically condemning protester violence. About 41% of the world’s people are under 24. And they’re angry… 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z History shows that a number of countries have come under the control of a ruling oligarchy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z To the present day at least 10 of the 15 former Soviet republics can be accurately described as oligarchies. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In each, a powerful oligarchy operates outside of, as well as through, the state. The Trump murder video is no joke: It's an encouragement to ramp up the violence 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A fourth element, once the oligarchy is well established, is the formation of a police state, principally using selective prosecution against those agitating for a return to democracy. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Of the four alternatives on offer — reformed neoliberalism, nationalist populism, nationalist oligarchy and the great democracy — he clearly sees the last as the best option, as do you. Questions for Elizabeth Warren: Now that you're the frontrunner, we need to talk 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The first followed the invention of the cotton gin, which gave birth to a “rigidified oligarchy that eventually challenged the power of the nation itself.” In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z He also used numerical simulations to demonstrate that it inexorably concentrated wealth, resulting in oligarchy. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Each uses informational control and ideological flimflam to get lower and middle-class support for plans to expand the capital and power of the oligarchy and provide suitable rewards for political, professional, scientific, and cultural supporters. The Trump murder video is no joke: It's an encouragement to ramp up the violence 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z In the 1770s, foreign-aligned oligarchs controlled what we now call America; believers in democracy fought a war to overthrow that British oligarchy. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Models developed by physicists and mathematicians, which display features of physical systems, reveal that in free-market economies capital naturally trickles up from the poor to the rich, leading to oligarchy. Introducing the November 2019 Issue 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z A second turning point in stopping an oligarchy from running the country was when the Great Depression led straight to the New Deal and major anti-oligarchic reforms. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z We found that this simple modification stabilized the wealth distribution so that oligarchy no longer resulted. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z We can organise it differently: through social control, not private dominion, via democracy, not oligarchy. Bernie Sanders is right, it’s time to redistribute economic power | Mathew Lawrence 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Aristotleput it in context: “Tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only; oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy; democracy, of the needy…” Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But today the real contest is between the people and the powerful — the vast majority of Americans versus an oligarchy that’s amassed most of the nation’s wealth and power. Why 2020 won’t be won by centrists 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z If the Biden administration can make the same kind of changes that the Roosevelt administration did, the middle class’s financial condition should improve significantly and stop America’s oligarchy from expanding. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The inclusion of wealth-related bias also yields—and gives a precise mathematical definition to—the phenomenon of partial oligarchy. Is Inequality Inevitable? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The economics of slavery prepared the ground for the political establishment of oligarchy. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z As a result, we are no longer a functioning democratic republic; we are now operating as an oligarchy. Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z They're related because the new oligarchy arose by using racism as a weapon to divide and conquer. Donald Trump and dog-whistle politics: How to beat him — and build long-term progressive victory 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z History shows that a number of countries have come under the control of a ruling oligarchy. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z And if that reversal doesn’t happen soon, the trend toward autocratic oligarchy will continue to speed up. We have to undo the attack on the middle class that started with Reagan if we want democracy back 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The oligarchy ruled the South for their own advantage. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z “There’s no question to my mind that the United States is moving toward an oligarchy,” Mr. Sanders said. Democrats’ Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “The oligarchy picked a fight; I clubbed them like a little baby seal,” he said in an email. Inside Overstock.com, where a firebrand CEO and ‘Deep State’ intrigue took center stage 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z If the Biden administration can make the same kind of changes that the Roosevelt administration did, the middle class’s financial condition should improve significantly and stop America’s oligarchy from expanding. In new book, talk show host Thom Hartmann takes on ‘The Hidden History of American Oligarchy’ 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, middle class and ethnic communities are driven out by skyrocketing rents and evictions, sparking a grassroots backlash that challenges the oligarchy of tech. Movies on TV this week: Sept. 29: 'Almost Famous' and more 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The practices and principles of Northern republicans accorded with this view, standing in sharp contrast to the practices and principles of Southern oligarchy. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z While not labeling its own wealthy and powerful elites as “oligarchs,” U.S. corporate media do, as noted, occasionally acknowledge that the United States itself is an oligarchy. According to media, Russia has "oligarchs," but America only has "businessmen" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z But, by and large, the oligarchies remain firmly in place. HBO’s ‘Succession’ is the feel-bad horror-comedy for an age of income inequality - The Washington Post 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z He said Russian companies “derive enormous economic benefits for a Russian oligarchy that has considerable weight in the political and economic affairs of this country”. 'Russians have special status': politics and mining mix in Guinea 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The biggest threats he identifies are climate change and an international oligarchy. Do you know which 2020 Democratic forerunners are hawks, and which doves? | Tyler Bellstrom 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The oligarchy restricted freedom of speech and assembly in the South and adopted special measures to prevent abolitionist speech and literature. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z What a strange country the U.S. is — an oligarchy without any oligarchs. According to media, Russia has "oligarchs," but America only has "businessmen" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z “We are moving toward a system of oligarchy, where political decisions in Washington enrich the wealthy while devastating the poor,” Sanders told the Guardian in a statement. Sanders leads fight against 'obscene' Trump plan to cut food stamp access 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Defending ourselves from oligarchy means taxing it to oblivion. From Trump to Johnson, nationalists are on the rise – backed by billionaire oligarchs | George Monbiot 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s a sort of elected oligarchy where the only meaningful choice is which filthy rich person we want to rule over us. Why do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America's great new hope? | Nathan Robinson 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z But the oligarchy did not deny and in fact openly boasted of their repudiation of republican liberty. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Even in corporate media, you will occasionally see references to the United States as an “oligarchy.” According to media, Russia has "oligarchs," but America only has "businessmen" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z I suspect it’s because the emerging oligarchy feels safer if Americans are split along the old political battle lines. There is no 'right' v 'left': it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest | Robert Reich 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Those are lesser concerns for ambitious politicians, who would rather allow the insatiable housing oligarchy — including investors, financiers, developers, consultants and labor leaders — to gorge on the entire city. Save Seattle neighborhoods 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Imagine an opposition political party in a land being taken over by an oligarchy, headed by a would-be tyrant. Democrats must just bring down Trump – for the sake of the world | Robert Reich 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z But the oligarchy pushed slavery through those limits, too. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z But if the U.S. is an oligarchy, then who are the oligarchs? According to media, Russia has "oligarchs," but America only has "businessmen" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The only way to overcome the oligarchy and Trump’s divide-and-conquer strategy is for the rest of us to join together and win America back. There is no 'right' v 'left': it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest | Robert Reich 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Other times he defines it in the language of class struggle, vowing to smash “the oligarchy” and “restore power to the many, not the few.” Billionaires aren’t the problem 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z This is rubbish, of course, but the tyrant is masterful at telling big lies and he is backed by the oligarchy’s money. Democrats must just bring down Trump – for the sake of the world | Robert Reich 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The possibility that America might become a slave nation ruled by a remorseless oligarchy was real. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z In the 150-article sample, Russia was described as an oligarchy in 89, while Ukraine was labeled as such in 35. According to media, Russia has "oligarchs," but America only has "businessmen" 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z In reality, the biggest divide in America today runs between oligarchy and democracy. There is no 'right' v 'left': it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest | Robert Reich 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “On the other hand, in opposition to oligarchy, there is a movement of working people and young people who in ever-increasing numbers are fighting for justice.” Sen. Bernie Sanders defends democratic socialism, reflecting internal Democratic battle over the party’s philosophy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “We’ll initiate a prolonged popular war, an insurrection, and then move against the rancid oligarchy, and take over the oil industry, and so on.” Venezuela’s Two Presidents Collide 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The rise of the Republican Party surprised the Southern oligarchy. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Gitanas Nauseda says that “oligarchy is very dangerous not only because it takes over control of mass media and starts controlling people’s minds but also interferes in politics brutally. That is not acceptable.” Lithuania’s new president vows to fight power structures 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z That means creating a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class Americans who will fight for democracy and oppose oligarchy. There is no 'right' v 'left': it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest | Robert Reich 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “The United States and the rest of the world face two very different political paths. On one hand, there is a growing movement toward oligarchy and authoritarianism,” Sanders said. Sen. Bernie Sanders defends democratic socialism, reflecting internal Democratic battle over the party’s philosophy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The Freedom Party’s Heinz-Christian Strache, who served as vice chancellor, was captured on a secretly made video appearing to proffer favors to a woman who claimed ties to the Russian oligarchy. Populists, nationalists again test their strength in pan-European vote 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In debate the Southern oligarchy often threatened and sometimes executed violence, but the Republicans steadily maintained their composure and sustained their argument in full view of the American people. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Jobs without benefits lower our standard of living, even in the presence of the chump change raises people have managed to pry out of the hands of the oligarchy. Unless Democrats refute the myth of a "Good Economy," Donald Trump is likely to win a second term 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z After reading a document released by the planning ministry, Sangkoyo said the move was more about creating business opportunities for Indonesia’s oligarchy than building a more functional capital. Goodbye, Jakarta? Indonesia's president suggests new capital 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z A truly democratic culture, founded on the challenge scientific reason poses to authority, can challenge this new oligarchy and renew our democracy. Democracy has a problem with science 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “The threat of sanctions has great potential to influence the government, because it is in essence an oligarchy concerned with its personal interests,” said Azahalea Solís, a lawyer. Nicaragua: one year after protests erupt, Ortega clings to power 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The stubborn influence of the Southern oligarchy survived defeat and meddled with American ideals and institutions well into the next century. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Few understand how much they worried about the emergence of one or another form of aristocracy in America, whether it was a moneyed oligarchy or a slave-owning planter contingent that spoke with a single voice. Adams family values: two presidents with a message for Trump's America 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z “His popularity is perhaps less about Bernie himself and more about the long track record and authenticity he brings to his policy platform alongside a populist approach that names clear enemies in America’s oligarchy.” How Sanders left political wilderness to become leader of Democratic pack 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z But when the deck is stacked so heavily in favor of the party in power — whether Republican or Democrat — it no longer resembles a democracy but an oligarchy. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Ukrainians will vote in a country divided between east and west, between corruption and a desire for honest government, between struggling, ordinary people and an ultra-wealthy business oligarchy. Ukrainians Vote, in Europe’s Only Country at War 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The best comparison is to the traditions of white supremacy, kleptocracy and oligarchy. Frederick Douglass and the Trump resistance: "Power concedes nothing without a demand" 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z If the government in Caracas falls, she says, Kaikachi will face its own embargo from the government of the oligarchy, from the middle-class neighbors and — most of all — from the landlords. Notes from the streets of Venezuela — the people are resilient in the face of foreign intervention 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Many of them were members of what would now be dubbed an oligarchy. Fox Business host Trish Regan debates Venezuela, socialism and what makes America great 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The only advanced country Zucman found with similarly high levels of wealth concentration is Russia, whose oligarchy is notorious. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z He threatened the oil companies and the oligarchy, which is why the United States tried to overthrow him. Why does the United States want to overthrow the government of Venezuela? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z His approach appealed to poor and working-class Venezuelans alienated from the previous two-party system that many viewed as favoring a long-entrenched oligarchy and U.S. oil giants. Even in barrios once devoted to Hugo Chavez, murmurs of opposition grow in Venezuela 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The shah’s family and royal court became known among protesters and the opposition at the time as a “1,000-member” oligarchy, a reference to their widespread presence in government and the private sector. Ayatollah Khomeini’s family mostly absent from Iran politics 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “Democracies become oligarchies when wealth is too concentrated,” Mr. Saez said in praising the plan. Warren’s Plan Is Latest Push by Democrats to Raise Taxes on the Rich 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But, as has become clear, Trump was a Trojan horse for the same oligarchy he condemned. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The longevity of that oligarchy, which also includes Rafael Nadal, has blocked several younger players from breaking through on tennis’s biggest stages. Roger Federer Is the Defending Australian Open Champion, but Not the Favorite 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z As for college football, these days it resembles more of an oligarchy, with only a few teams seemingly in position to win national championships. Alabama and Clemson Are Putting a Trademark on the Title Game 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z But, then, Obama provided exactly that for eight years as president – and his conflict-averse program nonetheless left us with a country that is now more oligarchy than democracy. Beto O'Rourke is the new Obama. And that's the last thing we need | David Sirota 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Mukwege said the trade in the country’s abundant natural resources helped to fuel the violence while profits “end up in the pockets of a predatory oligarchy”. Indifference to sexual violence eats away at us all, say Nobel pair 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z But in recent years, the American oligarchy has returned. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Reading them is like receiving dispatches from the oligarchy. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z It is an oligarchy, and one that has close ties to Moscow, I might add. Ukraine-Russia clash is not America’s fight 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The left believes that the prospects for democracy weaken as inequalities grow and oligarchies emerge which govern in their own interests. From Trump to Boris Johnson: how the wealthy tell us what ‘real folk’ want | Gary Younge 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation's governing rules ... is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form .... Want proof that voting matters? Trump and his forces don’t want you to do it 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Bernie helped reveal a new and deeper political divide in America – between oligarchy and democracy. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z They are prettied up, to be sure – they are not the oligarchy as it is, but as it would like to see itself. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Had this not happened, America’s descent into oligarchy was imminent. America's descent into total oligarchy was stopped. For now | Heather Cox Richardson 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Rising inequality, a new oligarchy of the wealthy, the collapse of upward mobility and of hope — could these lead to another “profound act of reinvention?” Review | A novelist’s provocative analysis of the decline of American politics 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But the oligarchy refused to allow this most popular man to run for the presidency. There’s a growing international alliance of right-wing demagogues 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z America has had an oligarchy once before – in the first Gilded Age, which ran from the 1880s until the first decades of the twentieth century. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Because, I guess, the oligarchy already has taken care of the present. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z We have to get back to an understanding of class, oligarchy and class warfare. Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: Donald Trump “is the product of a failed democracy” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z In such an environment, autocrats and their accompanying oligarchies are sustained. Authoritarians like Trump target trans people for a reason | Mischa Haider 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z But they did notpoint their fingers at the oligarchy or at high finance. There’s a growing international alliance of right-wing demagogues 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z By the end of World War II, the American oligarchy had dissipated – its wealth lost during the Great Depression, its power countervailed by government and unions. Can Bernie Sanders repeat his surprising success this time around? | Robert Reich 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z By contrast, the New Yorker’s advertisements seem to me to be a journey into the psyche of today’s American oligarchy. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z History, from Greek and Roman times through Europe in the first half of the 20th century, suggests it will probably be replaced by a violent, kleptocratic oligarchy that no longer shrinks from words like “fascist.” Billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security and Medicare 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Numerous other books have been written about the history-shaping 2016 presidential election and Trump’s mysterious relationship to the Russian oligarchy and Vladimir Putin. Pulitzer-winning reporter Greg Miller on Trump and Russia: We’ve all seen the smoking gun 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The neo-fascists that emerged with acid on their lips didspeak clearly about the fraud of the system, the theft from ordinary people by the oligarchy. There’s a growing international alliance of right-wing demagogues 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Stop railing just against Trump and start shining a light on the modern day oligarchy this country has created that is independent of Democrat or Republican. Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This resonates with a theme members of the oligarchy love, which is that they are the best people. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z So has Big Money turned America into an oligarchy? Wednesday US briefing: Trump urges UN to reject globalism 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Whatever the motivation, billionaires buying up media is another step toward oligarchy, as a handful of super-wealthy individuals assume power over crucial news outlets, both locally and nationally. When billionaires decide it might be fun to run a newspaper (or a magazine) 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Under cover of the monsters’ corrosive rhetoric, the oligarchy and the bankers have continued their plunder. There’s a growing international alliance of right-wing demagogues 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Nikolaev, 47, maintains a low profile in the Russian oligarchy, but he was thrown into the spotlight when his name surfaced in connection with the Butina case. Billionaire Backer of Maria Butina Had Russian Security Ties 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z But flip the page and on the obverse side is the first transmission from the oligarchy, an advertisement for a champagne that, we are told, is “chosen by the best.” Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Most of the original funders of Powell’s plan to turn America into an oligarchy are dead, but their multigenerational plan continues to roll along. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “More militarism, more imperialism, more oligarchy, more inequality and less respect for international law, human rights and so forth. It’s no longer about neoconservatives, but about conservative nationalism and ‘America First.’ Donald Trump vs. international law: Overturning the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Its purpose is the construction of a collective will, a “people” whose adversary is the “oligarchy”, the force that sustains the neoliberal order. Populists are on the rise but this can be a moment for progressives too | Chantal Mouffe 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The policies that Lula drove to do so are what earned him the blinding hatred of the oligarchy and its Western allies. Hunger is a grave warning to the world: If it is not defeated, the consequences will be dire 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The U.S. is turning into an oligarchy, just like Russia. Political donations: There must be limits 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z It was a long slog for the oligarchy. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Countries that were once democracies are becoming plutocracies; plutocracies are becoming oligarchies; oligarchies are becoming kleptocracies. The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The jurors won’t hear about it, but it’s still true: the country was a corrupt oligarchy, even if Judge Ellis told prosecutors to stop using the term “oligarch” during the trial. The Most Blissfully Trump- and Twitter-Free Place in America 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Well, this is the American oligarchy at work in the era of Trump. Opinion | Chris Collins is the latest Republican who proves the Washington swamp is alive and well 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z She clearly despised the lack of clarity which she believed came with Northern liberalism, and which she lampoons with her intellectual characters, who always function in a kind of godless oligarchy. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z They argued that she has “ties to the Russian oligarchy” and knows wealthy men who could be in a position to offer her “safe harbor” if she decided to flee the United States. Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according to a person familiar with her Senate testimony 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s ludicrous to suggest that “Germany is totally controlled by Russia” because Merkel is buying a backup supply of cheap Russian gas from Gazprom, the giant company closely tied to the Putin oligarchy. Donald Trump, Brexit and the Russians: A dangerous turning point in “World War IV” 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Erdogan says the changes would merely rid Turkey of a “bureaucratic oligarchy” that is keeping him from turning the country’s economy around. Could Turkey's president be in trouble? He faces a stiff challenge in Sunday's election 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z He fears this will entrench what he sees as an oligarchy that already controls the country. Analysis | The Daily 202: Why Bernie Sanders won’t join the Democratic Party 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Even he must have been surprised, however, at how easily his people accepted the oligarchy he was creating. Opinion | Ivanka Trump’s China trademarks don’t look or smell good 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “That oligarchy doesn’t care about domestic production,” he said. Kellogg Pulls Out of Venezuela, Citing Its ‘Deterioration’ 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “We can be hostile to monopolies, oligarchies and concentrations of wealth,” he said. In wide-open 2020 presidential field, Democrats are road-testing messages — and trying to redefine their party 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Once the tax bill lovingly tailored for the Wall Street oligarchy became law, Cohn left the administration. Freeing predators to bilk little people hurts everyone 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “This is what corporate power and oligarchy is all about.” Battling homeless crisis, Seattle MayorJenny Durkan weighs new head-tax proposal, spending criticism 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z To anybody who is been paying attention, what was once a great democracy is morphing into a corporate oligarchy. U.S. Economy Grew by 2.3% in First Quarter, Easing Slightly 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z “The oligarchy is not interested in democracy, nor justice,” Bolivian President Evo Morales wrote on his Twitter account. Brazilian Judge Orders Ex-President to Start Jail term 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Robertson extolled the Guatemalan leader, the lone Protestant head of state in Latin America, as the only alternative to “the oppression of corrupt oligarchies and the tyranny of Russian-backed Communist totalitarianism.” Efrain Rios Montt, former Guatemalan military dictator charged with genocide, dies at 91 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z When education gets trumped by mind manipulation democracy becomes kleptocracy, oligarchy or dictatorship. Bolton Was Early Beneficiary of Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook Data 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “At the moment, some people representing the Chilean oligarchies” don’t want negotiations, President Evo Morales said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. Bolivia president wants dialogue with Chile over coastline 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Of course, Facebook is not the only offender: Amazon and Google have enough fingers in enough pies to make digital oligarchies a problem we can no longer ignore. Time to cut ties with the digital oligarchs and rewire the web | Lizzie O’Shea 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z We're in a fight for our democratic lives and the Democrats are all that stand between us and oligarchy. Nancy Pelosi Wants to Lead. House Democratic Candidates Aren’t So Sure. 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z It's past time that the free world takes extremely strong action against this oligarchy of crooks and killers. Putin ‘Likely’ Ordered Russian Ex-Spy’s Poisoning, Britain Says 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The rapid rise of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral, economic, and political issue of our time. The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn't | Bernie Sanders 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z As social mobility halts, inevitability gives way to eternity, and democracy gives way to oligarchy. Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity | Timothy Snyder 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z He doesn't even really acknowledge the true parameters of the crisis....because doing so would force him to throw down with the Real Estate oligarchy here. New York City Is Failing Homeless Students, Reports Say 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It is becoming, increasingly, evident that Trump is beholding to Putin and Russia's oligarchy which is why anyone state side who criticizes Russia is gone from the administration. As Putin’s Opponents Flocked to London, His Spies Followed 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Vargas Llosa’s call to reduce state subsidies terrified many of these citizens, as did his connections to the rich, white elite that dominated Peru like an oligarchy. The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature — and a Writer of Our Moment 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z I pray this supposed Blue Wave rushes in Nov 2018, and holds the oligarchy of Putin and his GOP allies at bay. Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord, Intelligence Chiefs Warn 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Responsible national wealth-management requires deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, so that our oligarchy may further mature. Opinion | The Republicans Have Become the Party of Debt 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The corporate oligarchy's political party is hard at work hammering down the mechanisms of oppression. Opinion | Corporations Will Inherit the Earth 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z In truth it is a sham and a smokescreen, designed to confer democratic respectability on to a corrupt oligarchy. As Vladimir Putin steals the Russian election, our leaders are shamefully silent | Simon Tisdall 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It is about changing the form and content of the United States government from a republic and a democracy to a total oligarchy. Opinion | Don’t Believe the Liberal F.B.I. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Our political catastrophes deepen as oligarchy triumphs from governmental dysfunction. America is spiritually bankrupt. We must fight back together | Cornel West 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Why else would Trump be so obsessed with doing favors for and "business" with Russia, a decrepit oligarchy whose economy is smaller than Florida's? How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump’s autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die. Bit by bit, Trump is taking apart the New Deal’s glorious legacy | Heather Richardson 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The attorneys use parts of their court memo to provide a history of Russian oligarchy and corruption, with numerous media citations. Fusion GPS, Trump dossier producer, sued for defamation by 3 Russian oligarchs 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z As American democracy devolves into oligarchy, our most vulnerable fellow citizens are treated as “disposables.” Tax overhaul: Readers weigh in 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z If they succeed, we can only label those American voters changing their minds on the bill as a part of the power behind the oligarchy. Conservative Groups Seeking Support for Tax Cuts Find It a Hard Sell 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Eight business conglomerates now dominate economic life in El Salvador and they are largely owned by the descendants of original 14 families of the coffee oligarchy. ‘They Will Have to Answer to Us’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z That would be Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is heading to the heartland to warn against a coming “oligarchy” in America and make war with the Republican tax cut plan. Inside the Beltway: Monica mocks ‘The Monica Lewinsky Scandal’ 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z If Americans had any knowledge of how corrupt Third World countries function, they would be astonished to discover to what extent the US is morphing into a corrupt Third Word oligarchy. Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z All she wanted in the end was the chance to be the “first woman president,” to manage the oligarchy, and to conduct business as usual with her donors and cronies. Celebrating a 25-Year-Old Clinton Win, but Still Stung by a Trump Defeat 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Aristocracy and oligarchy were baked into our system at the beginning and we've had to literally fight our way to more complete representation. Opinion | Let the People Pick the President 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The end result of this kind of tax reform could result in an American ruling billionaire oligarchy, which makes world decisions with other ruling billionaire oligarchies. Republican Plan Would Raise Taxes on Millions 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z It is Exhibit A for how far Trump and his party will go to entrench an economic oligarchy. Opinion | Trump’s real constituency isn’t the white working class at all 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z If they talk mostly about oligarchy and rich financiers, they are retreating to their base. Exurbia, the new Democratic heartland 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z When the huge leak became public, Sanders warned in a statement to the Guardian that the world was rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a small group of billionaires. Senators call for investigation after Paradise Papers reveal tax avoidance 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Not that this has changed much from the intent of the wealthy white male founders...but is has with the Citizens United decision made much progress which has opened the door to rule by oligarchy. Opinion | Let the People Pick the President 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Soon, his sphere of operation came to include members of the Russian oligarchy. Paul Manafort: how decades of serving dictators led to role as Trump's go-to guy 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z We've been building up to an oligarchy, with or without Trump, for some time. Opinion | The G.O.P. Is No Party for Honest Men 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The challenge in seeing how oligarchy works, Winters says, is that we don’t normally think about the realms of politics and economics as fused together. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z They build a house for themselves by a copse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but they do not own the site and, inevitably, the landowners, a quasi-feudal oligarchy, begin to circle. What makes a Man Booker novel? Six shortlisted authors share their secrets 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Most countries in the region are no longer controlled by a narrow oligarchy, nor under the yanqui thumb. Time to bury Che Guevara for good 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z In February Mr Maduro stated the need to tell the story of Hugo Chávez on screen, to counter the “distortion and manipulation…on the part of the television networks of the international oligarchy”. Backed by the state, Venezuelan cinema has thrived at home and abroad 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z As for Mr Duterte, he must know the oligarchy might challenge him if they feel threatened. Will democracy in the Philippines go the way of Thailand? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z These oligarchies are categorized based on whether the oligarchs rule is personal or collective, and whether the oligarchs use coercion. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z It had “made such a frightful noise” with the “Fugitive Slave Act… the Nebraska bill, the recent marauding movements of the oligarchy in Kansas,” that it now performed as the abolitionists’ “most potent ally.” 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “The market is owned and controlled and operated by the oligarchy of Twitter and Facebook and Google,” said Gab’s founder, Andrew Torba. Squeezed out by Silicon Valley, the far-right is creating its own corporate world 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The children of the global oligarchy are curiously bad mannered. Croatian Island Wants Tourists Who Don’t Behave Badly 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Authoritarianism grows slowly but steadily before dictatorship develops, and even if it doesn’t a right-wing oligarchy is fearsome too. The mess we are in: Destructive Bush trauma paved the way for Trump trauma 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In civil oligarchies, governance is collective and enforced through laws, rather than by arms. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The disjunction between the current political system and the reality of Americans who live under it is so profound that the only solution is either to capitulate to oligarchy or reclaim American democracy. Democrats have a historic opportunity. They must not make the rich richer 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “The oligarchies of the world have reacted because they fear a new Venezuelan constitution. Who do we obey? In Venezuela, the people govern.” Nicolás Maduro: will Venezuela’s president drag his people to the edge? | Observer profile 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z As Odessa governor, Saakashvili soon ran up against Ukraine’s entrenched oligarchies, which pushed back on his attempts to break up monopolies. Ukraine strips Saakashvili of his citizenship, leaving the hero of the Rose Revolution without a country 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z But the difference between a billionaire businessman’s “promising conversations” with a country’s executive branch and “formal approval” is the difference between an oligarchy and a representative democracy. Elon Musk: I got 'government approval' for New York-DC Hyperloop. Officials: no he didn't 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Democracy is vulnerable to oligarchy because democrats focus so much on guaranteeing political equality that they overlook the indirect threat that emerges from economic inequality. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z A few years back, on my radio show, President Jimmy Carter said that America, in large part because of Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United, has become “just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery.” Is America past the point of no return? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Under such circumstances, the habits of oligarchy and authoritarianism become normalized. A new American revolution: Can we find the language — and build a movement — to break out of our nation’s culture of cruelty? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z They don't complain about economic inequality, oligarchy or monopolies because right-wingers are against the regulations and taxes that curb such abuses. Why the Far Right Wants to Be the New ‘Alternative’ Culture 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “Facing a bloc that represents the interests of the oligarchy, we are the only force of resistance,” she said. Marine Le Pen will have few friends in France’s new Parliament 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Winters argues that there are four kinds of oligarchies, each of which pursues wealth defense through different institutions. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The government blames the crisis on an "economic war" being waged against it by "US imperialists and the Venezuelan oligarchy". Tyre maker Pirelli suspends production in Venezuela - BBC News 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z When Sanders finished railing against a growing American oligarchy, Carter smiled and said, “Y’all see why I voted for him?” Jimmy Carter on Bernie: ‘Y’all see why I voted for him?’ 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z That will not be easy because democracy is in trouble, because moneyed interests and global oligarchies are corrupting government. How to fix climate change: put cities, not countries, in charge | Benjamin Barber 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z Her supporters interpret her willingness to cast blame on “the system,” “the oligarchy” and especially immigrants as proof of her sincerity. Marine Le Pen, Polished but Frank, Heads to Finale in French Election 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Ruling oligarchies like the mafia are collective and armed. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Le Pen described her rival as a candidate for the French “oligarchy”, adding that only she would bring change. May Day in France: six police injured as violent group hijack Paris march 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Sir, provide workers with less and less buying power and expect that they'll produce and consume more and more to feed the oligarchies, that is the economic description of the Perpetual Motion Machine. The Low-Inflation World May Be Sticking Around Longer Than Expected 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Whether oligarchy or autocracy, today's schools serve the same master. In China, Daydreaming Students Are Caught on Camera 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z France's two presidential candidates traded barbs on Tuesday with centrist Emmanuel Macron accusing far-right rival Marine Le Pen of promoting hatred, while she labeled him as the "candidate of the oligarchy." Macron, Le Pen trade accusations in French election race 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Democracy defeated oligarchy in ancient Greece because of 'oligarchic breakdown.' How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z “The people will probably reserve a very big surprise for the oligarchy,” the anti-establishment candidate said, referring to elite decision-makers, including Macron, who is a former economy minister and investment banker. France’s Le Pen says the people revolting against the elite 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A free-standing California will take - maybe 6 years? - to become your oligarchy. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Clearly, democratisation in Russia required efforts aimed at ensuring shared prosperity, not policies that led to the creation of an oligarchy. Putin's illiberal stagnation in Russia offers up a valuable lesson | Joseph Stiglitz 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z "The election is not done. The oligarchy has already installed Emmanuel Macron in the president's seat. The people will reserve a major surprise for the oligarchy," she said. Macron, Le Pen trade accusations in French election race 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a civil oligarchy, these actions are sustained not at the barrel of the gun or by the word of one man, but through the rule of law. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z In the early stages, the iron law of oligarchy and path dependency threatened to pull apart the two initiatives. Five ways consortia can catalyse open science 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The novel accurately predicts the rise of the oligarchy in the US and the methods employed to widen the gap between the rich and the poor. V for Vendetta, Fahrenheit 451, and five other books that reflect Trump's America 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The disruptive force is largely Silicon Valley, a natural oligarchy that now funds a party teetering toward populism and even socialism. Silicon Valley Takes a Right Turn 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z This is what an oligarchy looks like whether we are thinking about the United States, Russia, India, Brazil, Pakistan, the Philippines, etc. Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z A few years ago, as I was doing research for a book on how economic inequality threatens democracy, a colleague of mine asked if America was really at risk of becoming an oligarchy. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Conservatism reigns because, as the 'iron law of oligarchy' devised by sociologist Robert Michel in the 1910s predicts, institutions established to achieve a certain goal will prioritize continued existence over the stated objective2. Five ways consortia can catalyse open science 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Now hundreds of thousands of them are refugees, flowing into areas like Iraqi Kurdistan, where they are met with suspicion and where memories of abuses under Saddam Hussein’s Sunni Arab oligarchy are still fresh. Mosul’s Front Lines: Scenes of Flight 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Russian oligarchy, suburban America and the not-so-sweet hereafter collide in “The OA” when a young blind woman goes missing, only to return some seven years later with her vision restored. Whether by design or neglect, here are three Netflix series you may have missed in the deluge: 'Paranoid,' 'The OA' and 'Medici: Masters of Florence' 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Instead of Kings and Queens intermarrying with royalty from other countries to form alliances, the oligarchies of today simply have business relationships with each other. Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z But while he recognizes that ancient oligarchies were always drawn from the wealthy, a limitation of his work is that he focuses primarily on how oligarchs perpetuated their political power, not their economic power. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z But those funded by other US agencies, such as the Department of Energy and NASA, were mostly there to safeguard their funding or operations — the iron law of oligarchy in action. Five ways consortia can catalyse open science 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z His behavior and cabinet choices reek with the stench of authoritarianism and oligarchy. From Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump: Electoral College history offers no room for wishful thinking 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But it isn’t only that there is a collective lack of experience and a pattern of oligarchy. Degeneration nation: It takes a village of idiots to raise a kakistocracy like Donald Trump’s 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z When and how it came to this can be debated, but the oligarchy predated the Bush III vs Clinton II presumed election in the year before the primaries. The Whatchamacallit Economy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Warring oligarchies, like warlords, are personal and armed. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z And there are enough of us to stop this second great collapse towards oligarchy and nationalism. The Soviet Union collapsed overnight. Don’t assume western democracy will last for ever | Paul Mason 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “The outcome of the election is the result of a conspiracy by the economic oligarchy and sectors of the international community,” he said. Haiti: violent protests erupt over presidential election result 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Jakarta’s politics – and Indonesia’s – is entrenched in an elitist oligarchy, in which party bosses or their corporate backers are the main financiers. Jakarta at 30 million: my city is choking and sinking – it needs a new Plan B 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Voting for the oligarchy in the person of Hillary was not a cure, once things had gone that far. The Whatchamacallit Economy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z If oligarchy works because its leaders institutionalize their power through law, media, and political rituals, what is to be done? How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Norman Eisen, a former special counsel and ethics adviser to Barack Obama, accused Trump of acting “like something out of a tin-pot oligarchy”. Trump transition provokes cries of nepotism – but can anything be done? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z But, with American acquiescence, the legislature was monopolized by a small group of élite landowners, bolstering the power of an oligarchy that continues to dominate political life. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z But Division I men’s basketball, symbolically the N.C.A.A.’s most open sport — with a postseason tournament renowned for binding together 32 otherwise disparate conferences and for featuring unpredictable upsets and lovable underdogs — remains an oligarchy. Early-Season Showcases Are a Boon to College Basketball’s Blue Bloods 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Trump's choices of several billionaires, corporate cronies, his kids and including a bunch of generals puts us in oligarchy territory now. The Whatchamacallit Economy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z At its core, oligarchy involves concentrating economic power and using it for political purposes. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z If the wall is also for the Mexican oligarchy, it could fall from power and give way to a leftwing government that Mexico needs so badly. Mexicans on Trump's election: 'The power he has over us is terrifying' 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z He was viewed as a technocrat, but he merely replaced the old oligarchy with his own friends and relatives, including his glamorous wife, Imelda. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council Action, described Trump’s election as a rejection in part of “a Supreme Court that has acted as an oligarchy for the last four decades.” Read the Conservative Wishlist for President-Elect Trump 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “In every country, you have an oligarchy, a bourgeoisie, working to prevent other groups from gaining power. Our economic situation is imposed by outside powers, by transnational companies like Polar.” Venezuela, A Failing State 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z In his fascinating and insightful book Classical Greek Oligarchy, Matthew Simonton takes us back to the ancient world, where the term oligarchy was coined. How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Still, contrary to what some critics say, the Fed is not a self-perpetuating oligarchy. Message to the candidates: Hands off the Federal Reserve 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Baviera added that today Filipino historians were more cognizant that “American colonial policies supported traditional elites and feudal social relations that continue to form the basis of today’s oligarchy.” A Brief History of U.S.-Philippine Relations 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Donald Trump wants Americans to believe we are an oligarchy or a banana republic whose elections are a sham. Trump's 'Rigged' Ruse 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Many sat rapt in class this weekend, while others looked like bored 20-year-old college students, slumped in chairs or giggling with friends while the lecturer droned on about the oligarchy. FARC Says It Still Wants Peace, Despite Colombian Voters’ Rejection of Accord 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He argues that democracy defeated oligarchy in ancient Greece because of “oligarchic breakdown.” How the oligarchy wins: lessons from ancient Greece | Ganesh Sitaramanan 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z A major Princeton study found that the U.S. government is more aptly described as an oligarchy, not a democracy, since most policies align with the 1 percent and not the general population. The crisis runs deep: The candidates are just part of it — 10 reasons why our democracy is in real danger 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z If we're ever to have lasting peace on Earth, it's time to think of the planet's population as a whole, not the less than 5 percent who live under the U.S. oligarchy. Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Underground armed forces of the landed aristocracy, the oligarchy, represented throughout government under the table. Aching for Peace, but Also Justice, Colombians Weigh Deal With FARC 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z As long as voters continue to vote out of fear for the lesser of two evil political parties of the evil duopoly, they will continue to make a false choice for the evil oligarchy. Democrats Have a 60 Percent Chance to Retake the Senate 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z You see the oligarchy republicans don't want their legislatures to change anything...they don't want to govern. Donald Trump, With Bare-Bones Campaign, Relies on G.O.P. for Vital Tasks 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The two-party system, which serves that oligarchy, is a big part of the problem. The crisis runs deep: The candidates are just part of it — 10 reasons why our democracy is in real danger 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z At the same time, she was a cultural liberal, opposed to oligarchy, suspicious of technology, and hostile to both big business and the military. Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z If, for example, he has close connections with the Russian oligarchy that answers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, that would be important to know. Editorials from around New England 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The oligarchy has a 100% chance of maintaining control over the Senate no matter which party of the duopoly control the Senate, the House or the White House. Democrats Have a 60 Percent Chance to Retake the Senate 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z James Madison, who studied history through a tragic lens, saw that the life cycle of previous republics had degenerated into anarchy, monarchy, or oligarchy. How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Former President Jimmy Carter observed we are becoming an oligarchy while studies of social mobility reveal how wealth accretions undermine equality of opportunity. Long Live the Estate Tax 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, for instance, would always point to the dark machinations of the opposition – that is to say, the officially deposed “oligarchy” – and the US trying to sabotage his “21st-century socialism”. Trump, Erdoğan, Farage: The attractions of populism for politicians, the dangers for democracy 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z MANILA—Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, having rebuked alleged criminals and drug cartels, has turned his scorn to a new target: business leaders he labeled as being part of a dangerous oligarchy. Philippines’ Duterte Adds Business Leaders to List of Enemies 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Politics is the real factor and the oligarchy does not really care what workplace problems you have solved. How to Approach the Generation Gap in the Workplace 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The Russians are still muddling along with their proto-capitalist oligarchy headed by authoritarian Vladimir Putin. Socialist? Capitalist? Who Can Tell? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The fact that the Republican Speaker of the House and the Majority Senate Leader are not demanding that candidate Trump release his tax returns to clear up his financial interest from Putin's oligarchy is deplorable. How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Webb, 32, said he really hadn't given any thought to destroying oligarchy, but he does like the idea of the rally's hero, Sanders. Veteran protesters mix with newcomers outside convention 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z At the edge of a rally on Wednesday, Drew Webb held a sign with a line drawn through the word “oligarchy.” Veteran protesters mix with newcomers outside convention 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Politics is the real factor and the oligarchy does not really care what workplace... How to Approach the Generation Gap in the Workplace 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Among Americans right now, there’s a fear that an oligarchy of exclusion marks our nation’s politics. The Democratic Party Is Not One of Inclusiveness 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z A bit later, he added, “Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.” Bernie Sanders Goes All In for Hillary Clinton 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z At the edge of a rally on Wednesday, Drew Webb held a sign with a line drawn through the word "oligarchy." Veteran protesters mix with newcomers outside convention 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Webb, 32, said he really hadn’t given any thought to destroying oligarchy, but he does like the idea of the rally’s hero, Sanders. Veteran protesters mix with newcomers outside convention 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z He said she would work to raise the minimum wage, push to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates of money into politics and prevent "a movement toward oligarchy." Sanders Pushes His Supporters to Back Clinton at DNC 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy in this country. Read Bernie Sanders' prepared Democratic National Convention speech 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Norman Solomon, the coordinator of a group billing itself as the Bernie Delegates Network, called Kaine “a loyal servant of oligarchy.” Kaine not liberal enough? Just ask Virginians. 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z And on Friday, Norman Solomon, the coordinator of a group billing itself as the Bernie Delegates Network, called Kaine “a loyal servant of oligarchy.” Sen. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia chosen as Hillary Clinton’s VP 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z "We may be a democracy but we seem to like oligarchy," he added. Is the Trump family America’s next political dynasty? - BBC News 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z In other words, Ms. Clinton and the Democrats successfully rejected Mr. Sanders’s core message: The country is an exploitative oligarchy so awful that nothing short of scrambling up the whole system will do. The Democratic platform is really a win for Ms. Clinton, not Mr. Sanders 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z “The only thing that makes the canal Panamanian is its name, because it belongs to the entrenched oligarchy,” said Mr. Bernal, who also represents the tugboat captains’ union. The New Panama Canal: A Risky Bet 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A collection of elected officials, union representatives and local activists, who had spent years building the party, were suddenly agents of oligarchy. Democratic superdelegates: The villains of a ‘rigged’ system, according to Sanders’s supporters 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Well, that beats the hell out of all that Bernie Sanders nonsense about economic inequality and political oligarchy and an educational system that leaves young adults hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt! Paul Ryan’s secret plan to save the GOP, after Trump: Turn it into Uber 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z His tale about American oligarchy is simplistic, his policy proposals are shallow, his rejection of political reality is absurd, his self-righteousness and stubbornness are unbecoming. Enough with Bernie Sanders 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z These arrangements do not resemble the systems of highly democratic states like Finland or New Zealand, but they would fit comfortably within the Whig oligarchy of 18th-century England. Andrew Sullivan is blind: It’s elitists who helped give rise to America’s neo-fascist movement 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Then in May 2015, he announced his run for the White House, gave his "oligarchy speech" and people responded – by the thousands. Why Bernie Won't Back Down 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In fact, a 2014 Princeton University study famously classified the United States as an oligarchy. What the IRS Says About the State of Our Democracy 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z No, America isn’t an oligarchy in which both parties reliably serve the interests of the economic elite. Obama’s war on inequality 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z “I’m not going to vote for the oligarchy,” he said. How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Our current system reflects an oligarchy that only benefit the people on top and in power. 'We're making our voices heard': Filipinos on the presidential election 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He's been harping on income inequality for so many years his aides call it "the oligarchy speech." Why Bernie Won't Back Down 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Her critics, meanwhile, argue that her government was always compromised: the Aquinos were one of the wealthiest families in the country; the old oligarchy was back in power. The $10bn question: what happened to the Marcos millions? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The most hopeful scenario, then, might not be the emergence of more small, scrappy sides challenging the oligarchs; it’s Leicester City joining the oligarchy. Leicester City’s Impossible, Anomalous Championship 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Post middle class politics looks a lot like the same oligarchy we fought against and shed blood over to establish our freedom and independence, circa 1776. Is the U.S. Ready for Post-Middle-Class Politics? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The United States is an oligarchy — at least that’s what professors Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin I. Page of Northwestern concluded in their recent study. A liberal case for Donald Trump: The lesser of two evils is not at all clear in 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z |
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