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.

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." ...

For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of ...

President Joe Biden delivered a televised farewell address on Wednesday. Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office, Biden discussed the fundamental values of the United States, reflected on his 50 ...

The idea that the United States is becoming an oligarchy is no longer confined to academic debate or dystopian speculation. As Donald Trump begins his second term in office, concerns about an ...

The late President Jimmy Carter warned repeatedly that oligarchy was threatening democracy in the United States. He was right.

US President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand guard against a “dangerous” oligarchy forming under Donald Trump as he delivered a dark farewell address before stepping down next week. In a ...

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.

Even before Biden's speech, the rising wealth gap in the United States — as well as in China — raised concerns about whether the world's two largest economies were becoming oligarchies.

Outgoing United States president Joe Biden has warned ‘an oligarchy is taking shape in America’. What is an oligarchy? And is America becoming one?

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.