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Oligarch of The Month
April 2, 2021
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Rupert Murdoch
The media mogul has been encouraging people to get the Covid vaccine—even as his networks push skepticism about its efficacy.
November 20, 2020
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Kelly Loeffler
The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs.
October 12, 2020
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Leonard Leo
The Washington insider has been working for decades to put conservatives on the state and federal bench.
June 10, 2020
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Jeff Bezos
February 3, 2020
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Elon Musk
The Silicon Valley magnate's vision is less futuristic—and more solipsistic—than it seems.
December 13, 2019
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Michael Bloomberg
The former New York mayor is trying to spend his way to the White House.
November 12, 2019
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Alex Shephard
Oligarch of the Month: Dmitry Firtash
The energy tycoon is a key player in Trump's Ukraine scandal.
October 18, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: The Sacklers
Since their company, Purdue Pharma, released OxyContin in 1996, almost half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses.
October 3, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: Joe Ricketts
August 28, 2019
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Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: Charles Koch
Has this latter-day John D. Rockefeller found his inner peacenik?
June 21, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: Viktor Orbán
The prime minister of Hungary has caged refugees in shipping containers and rewritten the country's constitution.
May 17, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Sammon
Oligarch of the Month: Laurence Doud III
Meet the first—and only—corporate executive to be charged in the opioid crisis.
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