Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

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

It is made for the American people and American interests.” Seven years later, when McKinley was in the Oval Office, he ...

Cuba wasn’t a mere colony, it was part of my country. Expansionism is outdated.

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

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

The 25th president used reciprocity to press for an expansion of trade. The 47th is going backward.

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 ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...