Gilded Age

Activists Breathe New Life Into May Day

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: May Day, Labor Day, Haymarket Riot, National People's Action, Occupy Wall Street, Loyalty Day, Knights of Labor, Gilded Age, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Unlike the rest of the world's democracies, the United States doesn't use the metric system, doesn't require employers to provide workers with paid vacations, hasn't abolished the death penalty, and doesn't celebrate May Day as an official national holiday.

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Happy 150th Birthday, Edith Wharton!

Lev Raphael | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Edith Wharton, Gilded Age, Murder Mysteries, Riverside Drive, New York City, The Gilded Age, Edith Wharton Birthday, Edith Wharton 150, Books News
Lev Raphael

January 24 is her 150th birthday, and I don't know how Wharton would have felt about my novel, but for me, it's been one of the most exhilarating collaborations of my career.

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Hollywood Occupying Hope

Brent Budowsky | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Sammy Davis Jr, Poverty, Grapes of Wrath Foreclosures, Economic Crisis, Julia Roberts, Edward R Murrow, Civil Rights, Frank Sinatra, Angelina Jolie, Ocean's Eleven, A Better Life, Brad Pitt, Pay Equity, Joblessness, Fair Deal, Entertainers, Arianna Huffington, George Clooney, 99 Percent, Matt Damon, Occupy Wall Street, Justice, John F Kennedy, Job Creation, Gilded Age, Frank Capra, Hollywood, American Dream, Culture News
Brent Budowsky

Find me a few stars of stage, screen and song with the principle and courage that Frank Sinatra showed when he stood up for his brother Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1950's and you can change the world and help end this cold season of hardship and discontent.

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Alexander Eichler

One Percenters' Income Skyrocketed In Last Three Decades

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Income Gap, Video, Income Inequality, Economy, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Mind the Gap, Great Divergence, Gilded Age, Economic Recovery, Wage Stagnation, New Gilded Age, Unions, Congressional Budget Office, Business News

WASHINGTON -- America's 99 percent are not just imagining it. The gap between the incomes of the rich and poor in this new Gilded Age is strikingly br...

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Boob! Why Don't You Buck Like Thunder?

Susie Bright | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Marie Antoinette, Obama Jobs Speech, Congress, Middle Class, Newspapers Closing, Environmental Protection, Wealth Distribution, Libraries Closing, Politics News, Infrastructure, Plutocrats, Unemployment, Vaccination Shortage, Public Sacrifice, Iww, Banana Republic, Wobblies, Gilded Age, Class Warfare, Politics News
Susie Bright

If I were president, I would not be making a speech about jobs. This is Superman time: Lights, Camera, Shut-up, Action. I'd do something or die trying.

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Rebuilding Edith Wharton's House of Mirth

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Edith Wharton, Book News, Tom Wolfe, Publishing, The House of Mirth, Books, American Eve, Conspicuous Consumption, Novels, Gilded Age, Bonfire of the Vanities, New York, Robber Barons, American Literature, Wall Street, Books News
Lev Raphael

Certain books change your life, and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth changed mine. The novel's brilliance blew me away in college, deepening my desi...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Municipal Workers

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, Wisconsin, Rush Limbaugh, Jay Gould, Propaganda, Governor John Kasich, Morton Zuckerman, Governor Scott Walker, Labor Unions, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Goldman Sachs, Robber Barons, Martin Luther King, Sean Hannity, David Brooks, Ohio, Gilded Age, Rick Santelli, Jr., Glenn Beck, Wisconsin Labor Struggle, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

I cannot believe that in the 21st Century we are having this kind of a debate on the role of labor unions in this country. But I suppose it isn't surprising since we have entered a new Gilded Age.

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Amanda Terkel

Russ Feingold Launches New Project: 'Progressives United'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, McCain Feingold, Russ Feingold, Citizens United, Citizens United v. FEC, Progressives United, Senator Russ Feingold, Mccain-Feingold, DISCLOSE Act, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Progressives, Gilded Age, Progressive Movement, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When some senators retire, they decide to take lucrative lobbying jobs. Others go straight to Wall Street. But Wisconsin Democrat Russ ...

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Can India Move From Gilded Age to Progressive Era?

Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Progressive Era, Gilded Age, India, Social Change, America, Mellon, Jayant Sinha, Panic of 1893, JP Morgan, Carnegie, Financial TImes, Flagler, Rockefeller, Ashutosh Varshney, Mark Twain, World News
Madhavi Bhasin

India has, in the past, overcome apocalyptic prognosis regarding its survival as a single democratic nation. Hopefully, the Asian elephant can now work its way out of its own Gilded Age.

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Making Business Succeed

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Lesser America, Social Contract, Middle Class, Globalization, Make Business Succeed, Free Trade, Gilded Age, National Industrial Policy, Civil Society, Industrial Policy, Bill Moyers, Winner-Take-All Politics, Business News
Stan Sorscher

To get into balance, we need to restore the social contract -- the deal that public resources are rightly used to promote business, and in exchange, businesses recognize a duty to shared prosperity.

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Susan Vreeland Brings to Light a Talented Artist and a Vibrant Time

Lindsay Edmunds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gilded Age, Tiffany & Co, New York City, Clara Driscoll, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland, Stained Glass, Art History, Decorative Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Women-Artists, Glass, Books News
Lindsay Edmunds

Historical novelist Susan Vreeland has a particular focus: art and artists. And her new novel, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, is about Clara Wolcott Driscoll, who must have been extraordinary.

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Dennis Lehane: Between Dorchester Ave and Sunset Boulevard (VIDEO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Boston, North End, Gone Baby Gone, Zombies, Shutter Island, Mystic River, Books, Martin Scorsese, Moonlight Mile, Audio, Boston Noir, Brown University, Movies, Dennis Lehane, Video, Gilded Age, Novelist, Entertainment News
Christopher Lydon

Dennis Lehane so rules the neighborhood of Noir ("Nwaaah," as we say in Boston) that he gets street credit for work he didn't write, like "The Departe...

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'Dead End Gene Pool': Hilarious Dysfunction At The End Of The Vanderbilt Line

The Huffington Post | Wendy Burden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Misogyny, Richard Hunt, Acne, Std, Richest in the World, Richest Man in America, Corporate Greed, Vanderbilt, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gilded Age, Inbreeding, Dysfunctional Family, Books News

From "Dead End Gene Pool" by Wendy Burden Prologue It's a testament to his libido, if not his character, that Cornelius Vanderbilt died of syphilis ...

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"Citizens United" for More Corporate Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Reagan Administration, Wal-Mart, George W. Bush, Exxonmobil, Santa Clara Co. v. Southern Pacific, Hss, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, McWayne Foundry, Corporations, Chief Justice John Roberts, Reye's Syndrome, Citizens United v. FEC, Stare Decisis, Richard Schweiker, Fda, Judicial Activism, Nestle's, Gilded Age, New York Times, Corporate Power, Aetna, David Kirkpatrick, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We have levels of inequality worse than the Gilded Age and the "trusts" are more powerful and possess a global reach that is greater than ever. And the Supreme Court drops new political powers in the laps of these corporate behemoths?

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Back to the Gilded Age!

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Mass Movement, Free Speech, Antonin Scalia, Corporate Power, John Roberts, New Gilded Age, Clean Air Act, Corporate Speech, Minimum Wage, Banks, Gilded Age, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Warren Goldstein

A little over nine years ago (December 12, 2000) the conservative majority on the Supreme Court intervened in the disputed presidential election betwe...

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Super Rich: Estate Sales Are Latest Solution

wsj.com | ROBERT FRANK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Millionaires Struggling, Vero Beach Florida, Estate Sales, Fabulously Rich, Gilded Age, Richard and Amanda Peacock, Vero Beach-Florida, Business News

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Richard and Amanda Peacock spent five years building their dream home, a 10,000-square-foot, orange mansion overlooking the ocean ...

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Some Hard Truth About Hard Times

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Economy, Poverty, Political Humor, Economic Downturn, Crisco, Depression, Flappers, Alphabet Soup, New Deal, Economic Crisis, Scrimping, Franklin Roosevelt, Speakeasies, Recession, Fdr, Silver Tea, Redwood City, Great Depression, Rice, Saving, Norman Rockwell, Jazz Age, Bailout, New-Deal, San Francisco, Gilded Age, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Using the Depression as a baseline for discussions of national prosperity ignores an important historical truth: for millions of average citizens, money was tight prior to the 1930s.

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You and I Hate My Name

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, Layoffs, TV Converter Coupons, Rome, Financial Meltdown, Kathy Bates, John Jacob Astor, Eugene Debs, Titanic, Gilded Age, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Paul Robeson, Comedy News
Dave Astor

At a time when financial bigwigs have made a mess of the U.S. economy, the deserved scorn heaped upon these greedy "masters of the universe" poses a problem for people with blue-blood monikers like mine.

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The Price of Oil, July 4th, and Chuck Berry

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Anwr, Alaska, Alaska Oil, July 4th, Oil, Gilded Age, The Price of Oil, Chuck Berry, Great Depression, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.

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People As Products: Taking Advantage Of The Elderly

Martin Bosworth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dave Johnson, Lazard, Assisted Living, Bruce Wasserstein, Investment, Economy, Atria, Nursing Homes, Gilded Age, Russ Wellen, Capitalism, Seniors, Business News
Martin Bosworth

The Atria management has been cutting services, cutting wages, reducing benefits, and demanding more from both its workers and the product itself -- the seniors.

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