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

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

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

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

They symbolize US plutocracy, seated in front of Trump along with other billionaires, revealing their influence. Trump launches a successful crypto token while critics like Bernie Sanders decry ...

The Belgian-Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robeyns describes this as “plutocracy on steroids”. In her recent book, Limitarianism, Robeyns charts the concentration of extreme wealth over the past four ...

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow. About opinions in the Missourian: The Missourian’s Opinion section is a public forum for the discussion of ideas. The views presented in this piece are those of ...

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

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