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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...