Historian Eric Rauchway does not think much of President Donald Trump's plans to make America rich beyond its wildest dreams ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has mentioned former President and Ohioan William McKinley when discussing tariffs. Trump calls him ...

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.

McKinley was a congressman representing a steel-producing Ohio district known as the “Napoleon of Protectionism.” He championed the Tariff Act of 1890, which set the then-highest import tax in U.S.

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 ...