Stanford economist Mordecai Kurz breaks down why we are living through a Second Gilded Age—and how to address it.

The political cartoons of the 1880s showed morbidly obese men representing the era’s trusts, their suits and top hats covering undergarments fashioned as a sack of money, perched ominously above ...

Count on one thing: if Mark Twain, the famed American author of “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn,” were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 ...

With Twain’s uncanny insight into the American character, his novel presaged the quarter-century to follow so accurately that, in the end, it lent its name to the “Gilded Age,” that era of rapid ...