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

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

McKinley, Garfield point the way for the 47th president. President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs ...

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan went into effect. It adds a 25% tariff on all products imported from both Mexico and ...

“I am a Tariff Man,” Trump declared in a 2018 online post. Campaigning for a second term last fall, Trump said of the McKinley era, “We were a very wealthy country, and we’re going to be ...

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

“I am a Tariff Man,” Trump declared in a 2018 online post. Campaigning for a second term last fall, Trump said of the McKinley era, “We were a very wealthy country, and we’re going to be ...

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 ...