Trump has embraced James K. Polk and William McKinley as avatars of his effort to return the United States to a bygone era, ...

whose picture he hung in the Oval Office, but today’s speculation centers around three other national leaders: James Polk, William McKinley, and Vladimir Putin. According to recent reporting in ...

To justify his trade war, Donald Trump has referred to former president William McKinley, a protectionist who was in office at the turn of the 20th century. However, what is less known is that ...

Helped by a Typo, Mississippi Is on the Way to Eliminating Its Income Tax The Courts Overstep in the Messy Clash with Trump over Tren de Aragua Protect Workers’ Right to Vote The University of ...

President William ... failure of McKinley’s policies. At first glance, that interpretation makes sense: McKinley’s eponymous 1890 tariff preceded a Democratic wave in the 1890 midterm ...

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 ...