The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

Some critics have argued the US actually seems to be in something like the Gilded Age, the period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after Reconstruction and before the Progressive era ...

(RNS) — “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873, gave the period from the late 19 th to early 20 th century its most lasting metaphor ...