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

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

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

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

And how big a factor was the tariff issue when it came to McKinley losing so bad? It was a huge factor because in the United States, farmers were struggling and a lot of people were seeing higher ...

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

President Donald Trump’s tariff plan went into effect. It adds a 25% tariff on all products imported from both Mexico and ...

(Democrats lowered the McKinley Tariff the following year.) It was also electorally disastrous for his Republican Party, which got beaten quite badly by Democrats in both 1890 and 1892, before ...

ushered through a piece of legislation that became known as the McKinley tariff. It was passed in 1890. And it had revenue effects. It was designed to protect domestic industry from foreign ...

The McKinley tariff protection era in the US lasted from 1890 to 1920. A century later, another Republican US president, who has called tariff “the most beautiful word in the dictionary", seems ...

In the 1890s, Congress passed the McKinley tariff, on domestic manufacturing, steel and textiles. While the tariffs were high, the protection of U.S. manufacturing would benefit America in the ...