The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden ...
William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.
This arrangement changed with the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913. Now, there was an alternative to using tariffs to ...
The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...
For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...
Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.