In Our New Gilded Age, Everything Is for Sale

In Our New Gilded Age, Everything Is for Sale

I struggled to find a unifying theme for the latest parade of depredations from late last week through the weekend. But when a Gilded Age name like Mellon is dominating the news, it’s hard to resist framing the current moment as runaway billionaire-ism. A billionaire president freed from the restraints of the law by a Supreme Court stacked by billionaires and, in the case of at least two justices, personally rewarded by a billionaire benefactor.…

Is Corruption the New American Dream — A Nation Rebuilt on the Gospel of the Grift?

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