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SOURCE: NPR
9/25/2022
The Constitution's Support for Oligarchy
Jonathan Gienapp says that the Framers made deliberate choices to make the Constitution a bulwark against what they saw as the danger of broad-based democracy.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/7/2022
Democrats Must Counter GOP Hysteria about "Armies" of Tax Collectors
by Joseph J. Thorndike
Emphasizing the idea of "fiscal citizenship," of all Americans paying the fair share of taxes they owe, is the solution to fearmongering about jackbooted tax collectors.
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5/29/2022
There is a Real "Great Replacement" – But Not the One the Right Talks About
by Guy Lancaster
Arkansas history shows how the true Great Replacement in the United States has been organized by oligarchs hoping to use immigrant labor to undercut Black people's demands for economic fairness and human rights.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/23/2022
Would We Be Better Off Without Philanthropists?
Do the gifts of the super-wealthy cancel out the damage done by the unequal system that allows them to accumulate it?
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/13/2022
How London Became the Oligarchical Cesspool of "Londongrad"
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
From football to real estate to politics, British institutions have been willing to welcome Russian cash for decades without regard for its potential moral taint.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/15/2022
The Ukraine Crisis Represents Kleptocracy Coming Home to Roost
Western powers have precipitated the possible war over Ukraine not by seeking to expand NATO but by allowing the unchecked reign of kleptocrats since the end of the Cold War.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
2/1/2022
How the Left Lost the Constitution
by Benjamin Morse
Law professors Joseph Fiskin and William Forbath revisit the Reconstruction Amendments to argue that they represent a fusion of a "democracy-of-opportunity" tradition in the law that embraces an affirmative government duty to redistribute wealth.
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SOURCE: The Nation
10/6/2020
The Oligarchs’ Revenge (Review)
by Manisha Sinha
Heather Cox Richardson's book makes an essential argument that the conceptual distinction between class and race in American history obscures the way that American elites have worked to create and defend oligarchy.
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8/23/2020
Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism (Excerpt)
by Thom Hartmann
Franklin Roosevelt recognized that the concentrated economic power of big businesses was a threat to democratic society and a step on the road to fascism, and wasn't afraid to say it.
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6/21/2020
Viral Consequences
by David Marks
The indifferent response of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 pandemic and the repressive police response to protests are a signal that we need a political and social transformation to address the ongoing global climate crisis.
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SOURCE: Facebook
7-17-18
"They are deliberately destroying democracy in favor of oligarchy."
by Heather Cox Richardson
In the 1890s and the 1920s, Americans took back their democracy. Today, we are at an even more dramatic crisis.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
5-3-17
Trump sees government as a series of deals. That’s because he’s an oligarch.
by Heather Cox Richardson
The anti-democratic spirit of the Trump administration is nothing new and nothing good.