Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...
When, in the nineteen-nineties, people decided that we were living in a new Gilded Age, the meaning was plain. The term, borrowed from the 1873 Mark Twain novel of the same name—a mediocre book ...
It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth ... to take harder lines against drug smuggling and illegal immigration. "Nobody would have even considered such a thing in McKinley ...
A president usually gives their inaugural address time to sink in and saves the State of the Union address for the following year, when they are constitutionally obliged to make some report to ...
“It’s fine, it’s OK. But it would have been very much better.” The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s ...
President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs replicate the Gilded Age economic boom. With opponents warning about that “pain,” he can look to predecessors of that era for ...
It was a real deep mystery. Researchers have finally discovered the final resting spot of the historic Gilded Age ship Western Reserve — closing the book on a caper that has endured for over a ...
It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of ...