The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

It’s worth noting that the Gilded Age was also notable for a strong nativist sentiment, with hatred toward immigrants with the Chinese Exclusion Act and violence directed at immigrants from ...

His second inaugural address promised a “golden age,” but the ideas in it evoked the late 1800s more than any recent ...

The words from Trump at his inaugural address will truly ring true. He may have just said, “the Gilded Age begins now,” as that is what is ahead. Greedy, insatiable tech barons seated at his throne ...

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in international mansions, and at Ma-a-Lago instead of ...

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...

Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many ...

Clearly, we are once again a nation of prospering oligarchs and exploited paupers. The glittering Gilded Age that reached its apex between 1880 and 1920 was a golden era of opulent architecture, ...