The U.S. Census Bureau news release on “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010” is just four pages long, but that’s enough. The full report, at 95 pages, is just too ...

Here’s a meaty article by the conservative professor James Kurth, discussing the foreign policy implications of our plutocratic governing order. Excerpts: It is obvious that the 1990s was a decisive ...

I consider myself a good American with lots of international experience, seven years consulting in Italy, France and the UK; 15 years as vice president of product design and sales for a major software ...

Committee chosen to draft a declaration of independence for the 13 North American British colonies, from left, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston and Roger Sherman.

President Trump's easy forgiveness of the Saudi plutocrats who almost certainly murdered and dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi is consistent with this president's comfortable bonhomie with ...

More than 20 years ago, then–Supreme Court Justice David Souter tried to warn that big money in politics risked turning United States officials into tools of an emerging “plutocracy.” We now know from ...

Editor: Here we go again. Privatize the Postal Service. Privatize the prisons. Privatize public schools. Privatize the entire government. Make the Social Darwinism completely obvious. The “I Got Mine, ...

“Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the ...

Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion ...

That quaking and creaking isn’t from the Chilean earthquake, it’s a destructive seismic shift to right-wing extremism and plutocracy in real time with its epicenter in Texas. The rumble began with ...