President Trump likes to remember William McKinley's tariffs as a triumph. The reality is far more complicated.

President Donald Trump has been invoking the memory of late 19th century U.S. President William Mckinley, and this week he ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan ...

Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts. The president recently said: 'We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country.' As President ...

Trump has heaped praise on William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, born in Niles in Trumbull County and ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff ...

President Donald Trump and his supporters have heralded his use of tariff threats to extract concessions on drug trafficking and border security from Canada and Mexico. Yet, experts say, some of the ...

President Donald Trump in his inaugural speech credited President William McKinley for making the United States “very rich” ...

The 25th president came to support them only as a means to trade reciprocity.