The political cartoons of the 1880s showed morbidly obese men representing the era’s trusts, their suits and top hats covering undergarments fashioned as a sack of money, perched ominously above ...

Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ... maybe 10 years or so? In those olden times, if someone or some corporations gave a million dollars to a political candidate, the ...

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is offering a rich response to a news story detailing how the very wealthy feel about the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, tapping a star of “The Gilded Age” to ...

The Gilded Age was a period of dramatic change and sharp contradiction in American life. As newly laid railroads sped the opening of markets and the explosive growth of companies, "wealth became ...