What about the United States and Australia? Despite Biden's warning of a potential oligarchy, political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page argued back in 2014 the US already was one.

Google searches for "oligarchy" and "what is an oligarchy" surged. As the 2024 presidential race entered its final stretch, the nation’s richest tech leaders gravitated toward Trump’s side.

The United States is "moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Never before" have billionaires in America "had so much wealth and so much power." ...

And the bargain is indeed growing uneasy in the United States. Is America an oligarchy? Oligarchy exists on a continuum, so there is not a single moment someone can point to and say that a country ...

A recent Harvard Kennedy School Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation event focused on the increasing global influence of an elite group of wealthy and powerful tech leaders—the tech oligarch—and the ...

The question of whether the United States is an oligarchy has come to the fore, as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez draw major crowds around the ...

United States Sen. Bernie Sanders called for an end to “oligarchy” at a Saturday rally in downtown Los Angeles. Around 36,000 people attended the event, which Sanders described in a speech as ...

In the United States, the federal government gets a lot of national headlines. But state statutes and local ordinances, not federal laws, govern most Americans' daily lives and work. The national ...

WASHINGTON, DC, United States - US President Donald Trump looks on as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a MAGA victory rally at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2025, one ...