Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many

Remember What Happened the Last Time Fascism Met Capitalism?

German industrialists played a key role in bringing Hitler to power—and fulfilling his genocidal ambitions. The connection between fascism and capital should serve as a warning for what President Trump’s newfound alliance with big tech CEOs could have in store for the United States.

Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs: Trump as McKinley Redux

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severethreats may be his willful ignorance concerning the severity of climate change. Michael Mann,  one of America’s most highly regarded climatologists, noted that the Trump Administration has given polluters and fossil fuel promoters, “the keys to the fossil fuel car allowing it t…

Trump's Flawed Claim that Tariffs Made the U.S. Its 'Richest'

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In arguing for more tariffs on goods imported to the United States, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. was its “richest” or “wealthiest” during the late 1800s and early 1900s because of tariffs. In multiple ways, his claim is wrong or misleading. In terms of the overall U.S. economy, real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product per capita is many times h…

Madrid.- In the White House he dispatches a president who believes that the greatness of his country was built through tariffs, not free trade that forces it to be more competitive.That the United States took the big leap with locks to prevent migration, and not when it was generous to the arrival of people of work, science and art.That the moral leadership of the United States was achieved through alliances with dictators enemies of his country…

Trump says William McKinley 'made our country very rich through tariffs.' But the 25th president changed his mind on tariffs after realizing 'friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals'

"People did not regard this as a particularly healthy economy,” one historian said about the Gilded Age that Trump reveres.

In the beginning, mixed martial arts were something so niche that you only found them at midnight on cable TV. Today they have become a sport that changed culture and that among their fans tells President Trump. We then got into White’s company, so big and crushing that it broke the bones of all their competitors. There are two men bleeding in a wire cage in front of the next president of the United States. A week and a half ago, Donald Trump wa…