President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

Protectionist tariff taxes are nothing more than a price-fixing conspiracy orchestrated by the state that enriches a ...

William McKinley was at best a mediocre president, but he had attributes that appeal to Trump.

But McKinley himself gradually came around to the idea of free trade under the banner of reciprocity - something that Trump hasn’t mentioned in public. As the United States’ industrial base ...