NPR.
Darian, has anyone ever asked you this hypothetical?
If you could go back to any decade in the past, what would you pick?
Probably like 80,000.
And 10 BC.
I want to know about the Neanderthals.
What was up with them?
Were they smarter than us?
Were we marrying them?
I don't know.
Personally, I don't think I want to go back to any period before now.
Like, I'm good with the present.
I don't want to stay there, to be clear.
I would love to come back, but maybe for three days.
Well, if President Donald Trump were playing this game, I think I know what he would pick.
And we're actually probably wealthiest.
So 1890, that is in the late 1800s, a period that historians know as the Gilded Age.
But Trump is not the only one nowadays thinking about the Gilded Age.
In recent months, some have even argued that we're living through a second Gilded Age.
And they say...