In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs. We had a president, you ...

It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence ...

In 1890, the US Congress passed the McKinley Tariff Act, which for the first time formalized "reciprocal trade" as the basis ...

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

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine, calls ...

The media today is fixated on presenting the economic and emotional cases for and against tariffs. As a result, politicians are free to spew their propaganda ...

"Nobody would have even considered such a thing in McKinley’s day,” Merry said. McKinley champions the Tariff Act of 1890 ...

Tariffs are a means for one country to wrangle better trade terms with another country and to protect domestic manufacturing. Unfortunately, they don’t always deliver.

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