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The new gilded age
We live in a lopsided world. Even those who can afford the modest luxury of reading op-eds in English papers in a country like Pakistan know that a vast majority of citizens in their own country lack ...
The Gilded Age, like the Trump Age, was populated by very rich men who used their wealth ... all faiths that compels us to show up with the poor, the immigrant, the stranger and outcast?
Some citizens of this republic will see Donald Trump’s second inauguration as a glorious new beginning; others will see it as a dispiriting surrender to the nation’s worst tendencies. Many ...
The Gilded Age: It has been America’s gilt complex ... “I would rather have activity and industry for my neighbors than some gentlemen.” The 19th-century super-rich also built and funded schools, ...
The gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing, and those who are already obscenely rich are becoming richer. Total billionaire wealth has grown three times faster in 2024 than it did in 2023.