An America-First foreign policy, properly understood, is one that eschews imperial conquests. Reed knew this intuitively but ultimately lost the debate to McKinley, Roosevelt and their ...

IRWIN: A lot of people, including President Trump, think that the strong manufacturing economy was due to the McKinley tariff, but actually, the 1890s was not a good decade for the U.S. economy. We ...

During Bush’s first term, Rove seemed to have a good chance of achieving his goal. The president’s resolute response to the ...

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate ...

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

W hy has Donald Trump become an ardent admirer of a predecessor most Americans know little or nothing about? “President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and t ...

William Howard Taft is the only person to serve as both U.S. president and Supreme Court Chief Justice during his career. The ...

President Donald Trump last week celebrated the first diplomatic triumph of his second term, having forced the nation of ...

Forget soft power. It's all about hard bargains. Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promise of tariffs and is ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...