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In 2018, the U.S. Is Even More Gilded Than in 1918

Bob Lord / OtherWords Sep 27, 2018 Wealth is more concentrated now than it was in John D. Rockefeller's day. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Gangster Capitalism, Nostalgic Authoritarianism in Trump’s America

Henry Giroux / Salon Dec 5, 2017 In one year, the Donald Trump regime has wrought immense damage to democracy, culture and thought. But there’s new hope. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Capitalism: The Nightmare

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 20, 2017 As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future." Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Will Hillary Clinton Get America Back on Track?

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Nov 1, 2016 The vile election of 2016 doesn’t seem to offer much hope. But future historians looking back on the tumult might see the start of another era of fundamental reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Big Tech May Be Getting Way Too Big—Here’s Why

Robert Reich / Truthdig Sep 27, 2015 In this new Gilded Age, Big Tech—along with Big Pharma, giant health insurance companies, Big Agriculture and the largest banks on Wall Street—is dominating our economy and our politics. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Plutocracy the First Time Around

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch Apr 3, 2015 Aversion to the new industrial order and a “democratic feeling” in the late 19th century brought workers, storekeepers, lawyers and businessmen of all sorts together, appalled by the behavior of large industrialists who often enough didn’t live in those communities and so were the more easily seen as alien beings. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Does Progress Spawn Poverty? A Gilded Age Issue Remains With Us

Steve Fraser / Truthdig Feb 27, 2015 The “long nineteenth century” of class against class climaxed in the labor insurgency that followed the Great Crash of 1929. It seemed to resolve itself in the New Deal. But the questions it raised have endured, resurfaced, and grown more pressing of late. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Robert Reich / Truthdig Apr 17, 2014 We’re in a new gilded age of wealth and power similar to the first gilded age when the nation’s antitrust laws were enacted. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )