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 ...

Today, those laws are being targeted; Social Security, Medicare and other protections are on the chopping block and even laws prohibiting child labor are being rolled back. As we enter into this new, ...

President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

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 ...

In the first Gilded Age, a few tycoons amassed unimaginable ... who no longer have the confidence that their children’s lives will be more affluent than their own. These voters put their faith ...

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 ...