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

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

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

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 era ...

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 Expansionism is outdated.

Campaigning from his front porch in 1896, McKinley emphasized his stance on protectionist tariffs. His opponent, William Jennings Bryan, won the Democratic nomination in large part for his speech ...

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 ...

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...

William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president from more than a century ago until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan because of McKinley’s love affair with ...

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 ...