Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attend the 125th Army-Navy football ...

Jeff Glor talks to Douglas Smith about, "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy" Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Douglas Smith: While researching my previous book, ...

This election, a fight between a political outsider and the established elite political class, will decide if “we the people” will bring an end to the aristocracy of the privileged few. Recently the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Gilded Age was a period marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Soon after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the ...

Yale Law professor Amy Chua cruised to wide attention several years ago for a supposedly satirical book about shaping her kids into child prodigies with brutal hazing. She recently wrote another book ...