Is the U.S. in a second Gilded Age? Many in the news media seem to think so: You’ll find the claim in The New Yorker, NPR, Politico, and these pages. The White House, for its part, seems to think that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more ...

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and ...

Yes, the government allowed employers a free hand to do as they pleased. Tens of thousands of workers died on the job every ...

In announcing his unilateral (and unconstitutional) imposition of global tariffs on April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump ...

As chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, McKinley championed the Tariff Act of 1890, which set the then-highest import tax in U.S. history, raising taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed ...