Explore the rise of robber barons during America's Gilded Age, their influence, and the controversies surrounding their business ethics and monopolistic practices.

While the term has largely gone out of style, robber baron was an expression used to negatively describe powerful American businessmen of the 19th century. It was applied to those who were viewed as ...

Student sketch comedy group Robber Barons celebrated its 15-year anniversary on Saturday night. The performance from current Robber Barons included nine sketches and two video sketches. Students ...

Pundits, academics and members of the public have criticized Elon Musk’s successful bid to acquire Twitter. Some Twitter users have even considered leaving the platform. For these critics and ...

As many have pointed out, the stakes in The Gilded Age—Julian Fellowes’ HBO drama about Old New York in the age of the robber barons—feel low, possibly even invisible. Two episodes in, the main source ...

Concentrated wealth gives individuals the power to corrupt the free press, elections, the economy and our government. In the 1890s, robber barons who held concentrated wealth that corrupted U.S.

Warning: SPOILERS for The Gilded Age Season 3, Episode 2 - "What the Papers Say" George Russell is the shrewdest businessman in The Gilded Age, but season 3, episode 2, has just introduced another ...

John C. Osgood was Colorado’s original “Robber Baron.” The founder of the Colorado Fuel Company in 1882, he purchased large swaths of Western Slope land for the mining and production of coal. He also ...