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Topic: Second 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
Penny pinching VS Counting stacks (Getty Images/Salon)

Will Democrats fight the wealth gap?

Chauncey DeVega
Tracey Ullman in "Howards End" (Starz/Kurt Iswarienko)

Tracey Ullman takes on "Howards End"

Melanie McFarland
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The rich continued to get richer in 2017

Charlie May
Donald Trump (AP/Mary Altaffer/Reuters/Steve Marcus)

Why the New Gilded Age is fake

Andrew O'Hehir
Paul Krugman (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Krugman slams Big Finance

Elias Isquith