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William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

“I am a Tariff Man," Trump declared in a 2018 online post. Campaigning for a second term last fall, Trump said of the ...

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 ...