Tag: new gilded age
Gross. What’s more, the new nouveau riche are openly comparing today’s Singapore to the Gilded Age: But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he “no longer feels the mag
The coverage of Hugo Chavez’s death has been almost universally terrible. But this piece from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson takes the cake: Chavez invested Venezuela’s

As a historian of the Gilded Age, the sequester is very exciting to me. With each passing day, a big leap back to the halcyon days of the 1890s seems more likely. Here’s an old rundown I did at
I’m really glad the Times is publishing puff pieces detailing how our plutocrats land on their feet, no matter what horrible things they do. Like the first Gilded Age, failure is rewarded handso
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake moves the mainstreaming of overturning the 17th Amendment another step forward. Yes, an increasing number of right-wingers want to repeal the constitutional amendment al
I guess Bryan Caplan isn’t the only member of the plutocracy channeling Gilded Age Social Darwinism. See Mitt Romney speaking about the differences between Israelis and Palestinians today. Notin
I was interviewed today on Flashpoints, talking about the return of the Gilded Age in the early 21st century. At the end, I even got to talk about how I don’t think positive change can come with
Mitt Romney is having a fundraiser in Hamilton, Montana. Not only is this fundraiser hosted by Charles Schwab, but it is at the home of Marcus Daly, one of Montana’s Copper Kings during the Gild
- Gustavo Petro
- Some Early Thoughts
- Hawley: Roe will help Republicans by compelling people to leave theocratic hellhole states like this one
- Alito’s disingenuous assurances about other precedents
- Elite Law Brain: June 24, 2022
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,130
- Sending abortion up to the state
- I guess they had some time to line this one up
- It happened here
- Elite complacency and Roe