The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
But there’s another element to this Greenland obsession that hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention—and it is just as important to Trump’s designs on plundering Greenland and claiming the…
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The Real Losers in Seattle’s Mayoral Election? Oligarchs.
Of course, the oligarch effect can hurt a candidate of any ideological orientation, as when 82 billionaires backed Kamala Harris for president in 2024, while only 52 backed Trump. With…
The Agony of Trump’s Oligarchs
The UAE invested $2 billion in a stablecoin from World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family owns a 60 percent stake that Trump appears to have acquired without spending a dime. Two…
The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
We’re talking oligarch money. When corporations spend money on political candidacies, as they were invited to do by the Supreme Court’s execrable Citizens United ruling in 2010, the…
The danger of American oligarchs
New Yorker staff writer and author Evan Osnos spent decades chronicling the social, economic, and political changes in China and currently writes about American politics. To understand the…