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Plutocracy
October 30, 2024
Ross Rosenfeld
How America’s Craven Plutocrats Busted the Myth of the Business Hero
The members of the billionaire executive class have billed themselves as great men of history beyond scrutiny and reproach. This is the year that shattered the illusion.
February 6, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Incompetent Bosses Driving American Journalism Into the Ground
The news business is on the fritz, thanks to treachery, greed, and blundering from the executive suites.
February 3, 2024
Jason Linkins
The CEOs Are Warming to Trump
Remember when corporate America joined the fight to protect American democracy? J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn’t, apparently.
November 18, 2023
Jason Linkins
Billionaire Philanthropy Is a Scam
A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.
April 1, 2023
Jason Linkins
A Mammoth Meatball of Plutocratic Failure
This is how modern life became one big trash pile—and what it will take to extricate ourselves from the rubbish.
December 10, 2022
Jason Linkins
Hit Corporate America Where It Hertz
The rental car agency is getting away with subjecting its customers to false arrests and imprisonment. How bad do things have to get before there are real consequences for bad behavior?
October 28, 2021
Timothy Noah
The Atlantic
Is Well Rid of the Aspen Ideas Festival
The world doesn’t need more Ideas. Just better ones.
September 7, 2021
Natalie Shure
It’s Good That Elizabeth Holmes Failed
The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.
June 10, 2021
Alex Shephard
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers
For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.
March 24, 2021
Timothy Noah
How the Top 0.01 Percent Became America’s Criminal Class
An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else.
December 24, 2020
Thomas Geoghegan
Labor Power Is the Key to Racial Equity
The next big American conversation about race should take place in a union hall.
April 3, 2014
Alec MacGillis
This Is What Life in a Plutocracy Looks Like
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