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If you can't get enough of the beautiful costumes, glittering high society, and scheming of 'The Gilded Age,' this is your ultimate movie watchlist.
The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.
The city’s long-standing connection to Black affluence and entrepreneurship is the focus of the latest season of HBO’s The ...
Newport offered rare opportunities for Black prosperity and dignity during the Gilded Age. How much did the show get right?
Despite Bertha’s unenthusiastic response to her sister attending the festivities, Larry has gone ahead and invited Monica, who is at least a welcome presence for George. “Nobody loves family more than ...
Many prognosticators describe our current era as a “ Second Gilded Age,” a term I’ve come to embrace myself. It captures the reality of the moment: The deep income inequality. The coziness between the ...
WHITE: No, I think it’s one of the lasting battles in American politics. There’s an old ideal in the Gilded Age, the 19th century, for competency.
Reduced inequality: The mid-20th-century “Great Compression” saw the top 1%’s income share drop to 8-9%, aided by progressive taxation [21]. Parallels to today: A new Gilded Age?
The Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries displays prominent parallels to the Trump administration’s coziness with the billionaire class, with one caveat.
Three seasons in, it’s on firmer footing than ever. Season 3 of “The Gilded Age” will premiere on HBO and Max on June 22 at 9 p.m. ET, with remaining episodes airing weekly on Sundays.
(RNS) — Trump’s praise for the 19th-century president answers the question so many have been asking: When does Trump believe America was great? It’s the Gilded Age.
We don’t know how this is going to turn out, but the involvement of the very wealthy in American politics is an old, old story. Gilded Age inequality vs. today’s inequality ...