{
  "id": 5534403,
  "title": "Upend the trickle-down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/upend-the-trickle-down",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-04T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Aeon",
    "slug": "aeon",
    "url": "https://aeon.co/essays/why-western-democracy-is-ailing-and-how-to-fix-it"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Neoliberal policies have hollowed out democracies and spawned unchecked oligarchs. Grasping their structure points to a fix - by Les Coleman Read on Aeon",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}