Several familiar political or social words have been pushed to the fore in recent months, as the Trump administration tries ...

The “iron law” of midterm congressional elections that the president’s party loses seats and control, if it has it, is about to be busted in 2026. A handful of new reports are suggesting ...

In George Orwell’s 1984 oligarchy is mentioned when the writing of the fictional Emanuel Goldstein (an opposition figure) is quoted. Anyone wanting to look further into all this might like to read up ...

In Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty —a book frequently cited by Dr. Riek Machar in peace dialogues on South Sudan—Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson draw heavily on the ...

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

Since the end of World War II, the federal government has never been able to increase tax revenues above a certain, specific level for any length of time by increasing tax rates. There is a natural ...

Oh. Where the 'Fight Oligarchy' tour should go next Next stop for the “Fight Oligarchy" tour is Colorado and then back to Arizona and Tucson, reported The Republic’s Stephanie Murray.

A generation later, Arthur E. Morgan, the first chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority under Franklin D. Roosevelt, approached the idea of American oligarchy with a slightly more open mind.

[This article is adapted from “ Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States.”] Bureaucracy is necessarily hierarchical, first because of the Iron Law of Oligarchy, and secondly because ...