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

McKinley's tariff triggered retaliation from other nations. Prices rose, particularly for middle- and lower-income Americans, ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Tariffs are a means for one country to wrangle better trade terms with another country and to protect domestic manufacturing.

Harrison contributed to the collapse of the nation’s economy by accepting the agenda of the “Billion Dollar Congress” of 1890, which produced controversial legislation on monetary policy and tariff ...

McKinley, who was president between 1897 and 1901, famously authored the highly protectionist Tariff Act of 1890, later named after him, which imposed over 50% tariffs on many imported goods.

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