“An oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms,” Mr Biden said. He named no ...

In February 2017, a month into the first Trump presidency, the Washington Post changed its tagline to a corny, cape-y slogan that captured the “Resistance” mood of the time: “Democracy Dies ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chinese Vice President Han Zheng attend a meeting with Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves ...

"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy," the 82-year-old Democrat said. Biden began his speech by ...

Joe Biden warned of a new tech “oligarchy” that “threatens our entire democracy” in his farewell speech before he leaves the White House. Speaking from the Oval Office, the outgoing US ...

President Joe Biden warned of a rising ultrawealthy “oligarchy” in America that poses a threat to the nation’s democracy, in a grave farewell address delivered Wednesday as he prepares to ...

“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 ...

On the first day of the 89th Legislature, a coalition of Republican and Democratic legislators elected GOP state Rep. Dustin Burrows as speaker of the Texas House, capping off an extraordinarily ...

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Trump rejects such principles and values of social democracy and human dignity and rights. Trump’s life philosophy is based on ...

That sense of foreboding had run through the campaign of the Democratic Party in 2024, when it had warned that a Trump victory might signify the end of American democracy. Not enough Americans were ...

But as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and occasionally buckled, we see creeping autocracy as a distinct and underdiscussed possibility. We know well ...