The headline in this week’s Fortune reads: “Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns U.S. is ‘on the brink’ and estimates a more than 1 in 3 chance of civil war.” Billionaires and civil war? A billionaire ...

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 second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump’s fixation on seizing Greenland has generated plenty of confusion, hand-wringing, and alarm. But one question has ...

America’s rising oligarchs see Trump as a convenient tool by which their own power and wealth can be expanded. Being an old Russia hand (I worked in Moscow for many years, including a stint at the ...

For most of human history, trying to identify an oligarchy has been difficult. Part of that has to do with the definition of the term "oligarchy" in the first place. Aristotle first popularized the ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pushed back as MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle pressed him to criticize President Donald Trump’s relationship to billionaires like Elon Musk. In the extended version of their ...

Can little Ukraine teach big America how to deal with our oligarch problem? Viktor Medvedchuk was the Rupert Murdoch of Ukraine. He ran a rightwing television network and owned TV stations across the ...

Historians have been having a field day setting the records straight, thanks to the likes of Republican presidential candidates like Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley. Most recently, at a ...

(NewsNation) — Russia may have given “oligarchs” a bad name, but other countries have them, too. They’re private citizens who are unbelievably rich, unbelievably powerful and seemingly unavailable to ...

Viktor Medvedchuk was the Rupert Murdoch of Ukraine. He ran a right-wing television network and owned TV stations across the country, while simultaneously being one of the richest men in that nation.