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

The short-term pain might be easier to digest if the means — and the ends — were intelligible. Indeed, if the overarching goal is to, however vaguely, “Make America Great Again”, then the hotchpotch ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...