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

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

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high ...

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

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 ...

After an otherwise undistinguished career in Congress crowned by the passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 with record-high import duties, he won the presidency in 1896 thanks to the influence of ...

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

“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 ...

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

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 ...