The Oligarchs Are Fighting | The New Yorker

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The Washington Roundtable discusses the fallout from the messy rupture between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, how battles between maximalist rulers and the mega-wealthy have unfolded in history, and how this week’s fighting could portend a new, more combative phase of American oligarchy. They also talk about America’s new Gilded Age, drawing on “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich,” a new book by Evan Osnos, just out this week.

This week’s reading:

“The Musk-Trump Divorce Is as Messy as You Thought It Would Be,” by Susan B. Glasser

“Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder,” by Evan Osnos

“The Sublime Spectacle of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Social-Media Slap Fight,” by Jessica Winter

“The Private Citizens Who Want to Help Trump Deport Migrants,” by Jessica Pishko

“Can Public Media Survive Trump?” by Jon Allsop

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