Tag: Gilded Age
How ‘tariff man’ is bringing back the Gilded Age
America’s cycles of capitalist excess and social reform.
Musk, Trump, and the second Gilded Age
Will their audacity and excesses usher in a second progressive era?
Credit-card wars
It’s time for Americans worried about living in a country whose inequality gap could soon surpass that of the Gilded Age to begin paying real attention to our “credit-card wars.”
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Clinton blames young people and social media for opposition to Gaza genocide
A speech at a far right Israeli publication’s summit sparks criticism over claims that youth are misinformed rather than responding to documented atrocities.
Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP funds from democratic-led states
A new confrontation between the White House and blue states raises concerns about the political use of food assistance programs.
Apocalypse soon?
Returning a final time to Cheyenne Mountain.
How the pro-Palestine movement is outsmarting the algorithms
In response to systematic censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians and their allies have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
Microsoft faces reckoning for assisting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
A new legal and shareholder campaign warns that Microsoft’s military contracts expose the company and its executives to international and domestic liability.