William McKinley and Donald Trump have a few things in common. Both were president of the U.S. Both were the targets of ...

Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts. The president recently said: 'We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country.' As President ...

The workers associations argue that President Trump lacks the authority to shut down an agency enshrined in congressional ...

Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court. Israel is a close U.S. ally, and the court recently ...

President Donald Trump often praises GOP President William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901, for his policy on tariffs.

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

President Donald Trump in his inaugural speech credited President William McKinley for making the United States “very rich” through tariffs.

The 25th president came to support them only as a means to trade reciprocity.

US President Donald Trump claimed that “national unity is now returning to America” in an inaugural speech marked by vows to ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.