The US returning to the politics of the late 19th century raises the prospect of greater inequality, oligarchy, imperialism ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Gilded Age was time and climate remarkably similar to today, in which “robber barons,” the giants of industry ...

Historians, however, might view Trump’s swearing-in through a wider lens: Jan. 20, 2025, could well be remembered as the apotheosis of a Second Gilded Age. Let me repeat: The net worth of fully ...

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 ...