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

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a ...

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

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Cuba wasn’t a mere colony, it was part of my country. Expansionism is outdated.

In all of this, Trump is explicitly channeling William McKinley, another president who wielded tariffs with unabashed enthusiasm. Whether he’s mentioning McKinley by name — or restoring his ...

A little history can be a bad thing, and President Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897 ...

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

William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president, is credited with using steep tariffs to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th century. Did they work? Were they good for the U.S. economy?

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant ...