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 ...

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 ...

The Gilded Age: It has been America’s gilt complex. For more than 150 years, its leading figures have captured the interest of the American public. Their doings gave birth to the first society columns ...

(Yes, the word choice was strange.) “The golden age of America,” he declared, “begins right now.” Perhaps it would be more aptly called a Gilded Age. Trump was joined in the Capitol ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873, gave the period from the late 19 th to early 20 th century its most lasting metaphor ...

They argue today's America has all the hallmarks of a new Gilded Age. That age is a reference to the period between post-Civil War reconstruction and the early 20th century and takes its name from ...