The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ...

Columnist Susan Campbell opines that history has proven that a more equitable tax structure is the only answer to the country ...

Donald Trump's impressive 2024 victory, sweeping in a Republican Congress on his coattails, has prompted much talk about “realignment”—evidence of the arrival of a new, sustainable MAGA coalition in ...

Some see Trump as reviving the so-called Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era of great prosperity as well as technological and industrial growth. It was an era dominated by ...

Both eras also experienced "increased immigration, changing demography, and a decline in standing for less-educated rural whites." As wealth inequality skyrocketed during the first Gilded Age ...

Similar to the Gilded Age, we're seeing unions battle big corporations, increasing concerns about wealth inequality and ...

The books are set during a time when immigrants from the Emerald Isle ... Corso's choice of the Gilded Age as a setting was deliberate, allowing her to explore a time of significant change in ...

The Gilded Age was a study in contrasts. Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ...

Illinois, New Jersey, and, especially, New York, where the Democrats’ immigrant-fueled city machine vied with the powerful ...