In 2014 the economist Thomas Piketty warned in his best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century that patrimonial capitalism, wherein inheritance is the dominant form of wealth acquisition, was ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

The Rockefeller Foundation honored U of A alumnus Derek Barchenger, senior scientist and head of the Global Pepper Breeding Program at the World Vegetable Center, for his work at elminiating world ...

Reflecting on the day your name will be spoken for the last time brings clarity to how you live, reminding you that meaning comes from presence, not permanence.

On Sept. 29, 1916, it was front page news that a surge in Standard Oil's stock price likely made oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller America's first billionaire. More than a century later, the United ...

It was during America’s “Gilded Age” – a period that many (not just them Yankees, but also us Pinoys) look back on with borrowed nostalgia – that an economist named Thorstein Veblen wrote a book ...

The Gilded Age, a term that evokes images of opulence and excess, was a period of rapid economic growth and transformation in the United States, lasting from the 1870s to about 1900. It was an era ...

An estimated 150,000 fewer international students are expected to be attending American universities and colleges this fall because of visa restrictions and other Trump administration policies.

It’s hard to beat the setting of the historic Lakeport Carnegie Library in Lake County. The Park Street building is well over 100 years old and is set upon three acres in the heart of downtown near ...

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MADISON – The day after Labor Day and in advance of the upcoming State legislative session, key progressive political organizations and leading labor and community organizations launched the Living ...

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