Egging on a recession is the opposite of what presidents usually do. Alas, Trump does not understand the economy or the ...

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

U.S. President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the ...

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

When President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far-distant era ...

But now, the easy part is over, and despite the language of the Trump administration, we’re not living in campaign mode anymore. We’re living in “it’s time to deliver” mode. And right now, Trump is ...

A little history can be a bad thing, and President Donald Trump’s little glimpse of history appears to be limited to the 1897 ...

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

All this led, decades later, to Donald Trump’s rise and his assault ... he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor ...

Trump seems to envision a new balance of power with three poles: the United States, Russia and China.