The signs are everywhere, from Bezos at the inauguration to a celebration hosted by Passage Press, a far-right publishing house that was trying to sell last-minute tickets for $20,000. As journalist ...

Dating back to the feudal period of medieval Europe, the derogatory term "robber baron" was applied to some ... on to discover the 10 most notable examples, including a few who might have been ...

Charlie Sykes illustrated an excellent rant with an 1889 Samuel Ehrhardt cartoon that bears the caption “History Repeats ...

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President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that a new gilded age of “robber barons” was in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won freedoms unless the government takes steps to ensure that the ...