NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Northwestern University political science professor Jeffrey Winters about what some have called the oligarchy shaping American politics and society.

In 2024, an average of nearly four new billionaires were coined every week, according to Oxfam. Much of their wealth will be ...

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is underway this week — and there are calls for taxing the extremely rich to address global inequality.

By warning of the threat oligarchy poses to the country, President Joe Biden tapped into a Democratic Party tradition begun ...

At President Trump's inauguration, three of the wealthiest people sat front-row. Days prior, former President Biden warned of an oligarchy forming.

Wrong way world A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the ...

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least 5 trillionaires within a decade, even ...

But economic gaps have continued to grow as the very richest amass unprecedented levels of wealth. Among industrial nations ... on the history of global inequality trends and how to take power back ...

xenophobia and racism failed to lift him to a position of power — and yet whose style, rhetoric and ideology also served as a prototype for the vote-winners of today’s Trumpian world.

Whether a coal civilization is upon the whole better than the man-power civilization ... which are the basis of our national wealth. More than ever before is the whole world under a heavy ...