Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

Many people today are unfamiliar with the term “Great Depres­sion” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...