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Topic: Gilded Age

President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump is creating the Second Gilded Age

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump; William McKinley (Getty/Mandel Ngan/National Archive/Newsmakers)

Why is Trump obsessed with McKinley?

Mark Lawrence Schrad
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Welcome to the New Dark Ages

Austin Sarat
Penny pinching VS Counting stacks (Getty Images/Salon)

Will Democrats fight the wealth gap?

Chauncey DeVega
The Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, is seen Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

Making money off of politics isn’t new

Jeff Broxmeyer - The Conversation
(Getty/Salon)

Why we need to break up Big Tech

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. Clockwise, from lower left are, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the president, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Robert Reich: What does oligarchy mean?

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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America needs a new national story

Jim Sleeper
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2016, file photo, Indian journalists hold placards during a protest against attack on journalists in Mumbai, India. Indian journalists say they face more violent threats and attacks for questioning government policy or the wisdom of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some have been threatened hundreds, even thousands, of times. Government and ruling-party officials have denied responsibility, while taking a hard line against anyone viewed as anti-Indian. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File) (AP)

Gilded Age journalists had it worst

Randall Sumpter - The Conversation
Elon Musk; Donald Trump (AP/Kiichiro Sato/Andrew Harnik)

Reich: Musk, Trump and a new Gilded Age

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Gilded Age warning to Silicon Valley

Richard White - The Conversation
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The rich continued to get richer in 2017

Charlie May
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attend a "Spirit of America" rally in Denver February 27, 2017. (Reuters/Rick Wilking)

The new Gilded Age

Bernard Weisberger - BillMoyers.com
The Trump International Hotel (Getty/Zach Gibson)

The new Gilded Age

Angelo Young

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Donald Trump (AP/Mary Altaffer/Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Steve Fraser - TomDispatch.com
Joni Ernst (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa's Tea Party disaster

Elias Isquith
Tea Party Patriots' Exempt America from Obamacare rally, on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Tea Party's self-harming hate

Edward McClelland
Robert La Follette, Ted Cruz (Wikimedia/AP/LM Otero)

"The Ted Cruz of his day"

Elias Isquith
(AP/Susan Walsh)

Hillary must forget the '90s

Thomas Frank
Donald Trump (AP/Mary Altaffer/Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Why the New Gilded Age is fake

Andrew O'Hehir

Lynn Stuart Parramore - Alternet