Tag: gilded age

• Plain English with Derek Thompson: Plain History: The Gilded Age

  March 24, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/7Jvy0I1 Corruption. Class wars. Technological splendor. The dawn of a new age of business and government. Rockefeller and Carnegie. The Gilded Age in America—roughly the 1870s through the early… more ›

• Donald Trump Is Building a Bridge to 1896

  January 20, 2025

  The president-elect promises to rule with robber baron tactics and imperial belligerence—just like his role model, William McKinley. President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. https://www.thenation.com/?post_type=article&p=536387 more ›