U.S. President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the ...

The 25th president used reciprocity to press for an expansion of trade. The 47th is going backward.

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high ...

The media today is fixated on presenting the economic and emotional cases for and against tariffs. As a result, politicians ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high import duties, he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan went into effect. It adds a 25% tariff on all products imported from both Mexico and ...

Of course, Trump’s trade policy is so muddled that this observation isn’t very compelling. Economists on the left and right ...

“I am a Tariff Man,” Trump declared in a 2018 online post. Campaigning for a second term last fall, Trump said of the McKinley era, “We were a very wealthy country, and we’re going to be ...

WASHINGTON — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more ...