"Untaxed billions of dollars in inheritance is an affront to fairness, perpetuating a new aristocracy where wealth and power stays locked in the hands of a few." Oxfam's new report—titled Takers ...

The British aristocracy became my specialist subject by happy accident. Halfway up a hill in Dumfriesshire, behind a duke who owned all the land as far as the eye could see, I thought, ‘surely this is ...

This form of tyranny, of the appointment and ascendancy of the undeserved, would be later termed by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Adams as an “artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and ...

The Guillands came to the U.S., landing first in Virginia and, like many others, headed west to seek their fortune. They established a cattle ranch near The Dalles and, as did cattle baron Ben Snipes, ...

Rather, they were the closest thing the United States has ever had to a true aristocracy. Several factors, besides wealth, made Boston's Brahmins stand out as an aristocracy even from the wealthy ...

This idea that the best of us have the ability to rise to the top undergirds the narrative of America's origin story of escape from the ossified clutches of British aristocracy. It's also become a ...