For years, political experts have warned that America is in a state of democratic decline. Now some say democracy in the US could be giving way to something else entirely: an oligarchy. That’s an ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As he waited in the shadow of a parking garage in Tempe, Arizona, to hear Sen. Bernie ...

The hard lesson of 2024 is that liberals spent too much time fretting that Donald Trump would subvert democracy if he lost and not enough that Trump would win a free and fair election. We can argue ...

In the United States, our form of government is a representative democracy, meaning citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has other ideas. “Of course the ...

When Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, he was flanked by billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. An American government, closely aligned with money and power is something that ...

Historians have been having a field day setting the records straight, thanks to the likes of Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley. Most recently, at a ...

A new political science study that’s gone viral finds that majority-rule democracy exists only in theory in the United States — not so much in practice. The government caters to the affluent few and ...

Chinese national who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland is granted asylum to remain in US EPA plan would begin rolling back ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution from smokestacks Mayors ...

Early Saturday morning, thousands of supporters gathered at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles to attend the contentious “Fighting Oligarchy” tour featuring Senator Bernie Sanders, progressive ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take For years, political experts have warned that America is in a state of democratic decline. Now some say democracy in the US ...