Huge thanks to everyone who's already read, purchased, and supported the book. We have upcoming book tour dates in Louisiana, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Massachusetts, and more, so keep an eye out for updates. UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY is out and available on bookshelves now!

What a book launch week for UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY! —The #1 new release on Amazon for Economic Policy —A Goodreads rating that just keeps climbing and climbing (far higher than any of my previous books!) —Excerpts in The New Republic, Zeteo, and Talking Points Memo

Fantastic book talk last night at @politicsandprose.bsky.social in DC. Huge thanks to @mattduss.bsky.social for moderating, and for the entire crowd of great (and even very nerdy!) questions on all things anti-corruption and anti-oligarchy. UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY is available now—go get a copy!

My new book is officially here! UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY looks at what oligarchy actually is, and how we got here, and where we're going—and how wealth inequality in the US threatens both democracy and national security alike, and has led directly to the resurgence of empire. Pick up a copy now!

DC friends! I'll be speaking about my new book UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY (out today!!) on August 5th at 7 pm at @politicsandprose.bsky.social (Wharf location), alongside the great Matt Duss. Hope to see you there!

The war wasn't a "civil war"—it was a secessionist rebellion, put down by the American government. Nor was it the "North vs. South"! If anything, it was the "North and West and part of the South vs. another part of the South."

Huge thanks to Kirkus Reviews for this great review of UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY: "a damning account of an unaccountable caste." My new book is out tomorrow(!) - get your final pre-orders in now! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Well, this is extremely cool—UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY just got a starred(!) review from Publishers Weekly! The new book is an "eye-opening account" of oligarchy reigning in America. "Readers will be outraged by the egregiousness of it all." Make sure to pre-order the new book—out August 4th!

Great rejoinder to that Melnichenko cover at @economist.com, especially about how his call to support Russian "sovereignty" is just an excuse for more Russian imperialism: www.economist.com/letters/2026...

Yes, Democrats should absolutely run on corruption in the midterms (and beyond)—just look at what Democratic voters want! www.ft.com/content/f91f...

There's too much warmed-over imperialism in Melnichenko's essay in @economist.com. The "roots" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine aren't about Moscow's "security concerns" that were "never seriously addressed." It's because Russia views itself as a supposed great power, with regional subalterns.

That Economist essay from Melnichenko is interesting, but way too much fear-mongering in there on what might happen to Russia post-Putin. Why is "unmanageable" "fragmentation" one of the most likely scenarios? Should Tatarstan and Chechnya and Sakha be condemned to be controlled by Moscow forever?

We're officially less than one month until the release of my next book, UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY! Make sure to pre-order from your favorite bookstore, and dive into America's descent into oligarchy—the legal history, the socio-economic dynamics, the political fallout, and more.

If it seems like more and more Ukrainian long-strike drone attacks on Russia are succeeding... they absolutely are. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Increasingly difficult to see how Rama survives all these anti-Kushner protests. www.ft.com/content/3cb6...

Good to see Putin remains as delusional as ever. www.ft.com/content/b409...

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner continues to profit from Israeli expansionism—and continues to help oversee the Board of Peace. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile, as the Board of Peace's financing becomes more and more hidden, the organization hasn't issued an official statement in five months. boardofpeace.org/announcements

What a strange line from @economist.com here—not only is it completely unclear that Ukraine will cede territory(?), but who in the world knows if that's an "inevitable outcome" of the war? This feels like a line written in early 2022, not 2026. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

This is Putin, basically.

Absolutely incredible to see what a fantasy-land Putin is still living in. (And that's only about conquering the Donbas, let alone Kyiv!) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Make sure to pre-order UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY, out this August from @stmartinspress.bsky.social! read.macmillan.com/lp/united-st...

Steve Witkoff can't visit Ukraine because it's hard for him to... take a train? kyivindependent.com/heres-why-tr...

"Russia made no territorial gains in March, the first time its progress has stalled entirely in more than two years." www.semafor.com/article/04/0...

Extremely excited that @barnesandnoble.com is running a *three day only* pre-sale for UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY! Use the code PREORDER25, and learn all about how America's wealth inequality and campaign finance laws have become national security threats—and threats to democracy around the world.

At least some of these headlines are getting it right. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Rwanda's dictator posted a video of his trip to the @nba.com's All-Star Game, yukking it up with Adam Silver: www.instagram.com/reel/DU1Vq7Y...

One of the few State of the Union speeches that's only continued aging better and better is Obama's 2010 SOTU, where he specifically highlighted the threat that the just-passed Citizens United decision meant for foreign wealth to suddenly begin swamping American politics.

China's running the biggest concentration camp system the world has seen since the Holocaust... and this is Eileen Gu's response? Yeesh. time.com/7355691/eile...

I've been wrong about a billion things, but calling the Ukraine invasion as a strategic disaster of historic proportions for Russia was the easiest thing in the world.