Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

It was Nov. 3, 1896, and the former Ohio Governor was on his way to becoming America’s 25th president. The 53-year-old ...

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

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 ...

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

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 Expansionism is outdated.

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

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

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

From James Polk’s expansionist conquest to William McKinley’s imperialist scheming to Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian crackdowns, Trump isn’t just following in their footsteps—he’s ...