Though he is known today as a ‘tariff guy,’ the 25th president changed his mind about the use of levies. Here’s what to know ...

Who knew that McKinley was controlled by China? It is true that the self-styled "tariff man"—his political opponents preferred the more derisive "Napoleon of protection"—was the biggest public ...

The similarities: "I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform," McKinley declared on the presidential campaign trail in 1896, appealing to America's core manufacturing base and dominant ...

In the president’s eyes, tariffs might simply be the price other countries should pay for admission to a premium market.

There is no coherent strategy behind these country-by-country tariff rates. Trump continues to justify these tariffs as bringing back what he characterizes as the wealthy utopia created by the 1890 ...

Today, the economy is global. Kern also noted that Republicans took huge losses in the 1890 election after the imposition of the McKinley Tariff, and that McKinley appeared to change his tune on ...

The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 was both a political and economic disaster. Republicans lost four Senate seats and 86 House ...