A new audit of Australia’s democracy finds it generally in good shape, but with pressing issues that need addressing.

The richest man in the world is backing far-right parties against a political establishment that has failed to deliver.

Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature is the private control of the investment function in the hands of the few, ...

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of ...

About seven months ago, after the beautiful memorial service for former Allegheny County Executive Jim Roddey at the ...

Wealthy people have always had a louder voice, but Trump’s new allies represent the starkest consolidation of wealth in US ...

The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming ...

The Trump presidency is not a pathology of mass politics. It’s a problem of our billionaire political economy.

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

“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone ...

The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his book “Politics” that “democracy is safer and more free from civil strife than oligarchy; for in oligarchies two kinds of strife spring up, faction between ...