Interstate competition, not progressive government and burdensome tax policy, made the economy boom in the Gilded Age, The ...

We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded ...

The dismantling of government agencies and firing of workers is causing chaos. As a veteran and retired senior, I am worried what services a limited government would provide.

But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s GDP grew at nearly 5 percent ...

The starry Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony was the most high-profile event held at the venue since the president ...

An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people — typically, the very wealthy — holds most or all of the ...

Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance.” “Above all, Twain was a ...

He told NPR: “The thing that really stands out [from the Gilded Age] is that there was a visibility, an awareness of this kind of power being exerted politically at that time, and it kind of ...