As the nation entered the industrial age during a time of economic depression, William McKinley felt protective tariffs were the key to a bright financial future — and voters agreed with him. It was ...

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

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

But there's already a Mount McKinley of sorts, in Canton, Ohio, right between I-77 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame: A magnificent mausoleum to our 25th President, William McKinley, entombed ...

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

In his inaugural address, Donald Trump harked back to William McKinley, the 25th US president, who raised tariffs on US ...

In Trump's idealized framing, America was at its zenith when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever ...

3. Protectionism and Trade Wars: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930 responded to economic pressures but exacerbated the global ...

The president seems bent on taking America back ... he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected to the ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

Reciprocal trade policy as envisioned by President William McKinley, whom Mr. Trump often cites as his role model, recognized that by the dawn of the 20th century America had emerged as an ...