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 ...

“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 Rotunda by many of the nation’s richest ...

(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 ...

These Gilded Age novels, each of which explores political violence, struggle with the problem of getting inside the mind of a revolutionary. Turgenev, Conrad and James found something captivating ...

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 ...

What it will likely be instead is a second gilded age, and the country may be unrecognizable by the time it ends. First, it’s worth noting that the Constitution itself is an anti-corruption ...