Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time, waiting for the appropriate ...

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

But the danger of oligarchy isn’t just that rich people get richer and the rest of us get poorer, which has been the steady trajectory of the Reagan Revolution for 44 years. As I point out in The ...

Decades of policy decisions have entrenched disparities so deep that the US now stands on the brink of an era reminiscent of the Gilded Age, but far more concentrated, according to a new report. Oxfam ...

This is no country for old men.” Three years later, in 1965, Medicare was created. A major expansion of Social Security ...

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

Is this the American oligarchy? An exclusive investigation from The Washington Post has found that America’s wealthiest people are spending unprecedented amounts of money on U.S. politics. How is that ...