President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

William McKinley was at best a mediocre president, but he had attributes that appeal to Trump.

Churchill once implied that history would be kind to him because “I propose to write that history myself.” As we know from his paroxysms on Truth Social, Donald Trump is barely capable of writing a single coherent sentence.

McKinley, 123 years after his assassination, often ranks as an above average but not spectacular president in presidential rankings. For Trump, McKinley ranks high because of his love of tariffs.

McKinley, who was inaugurated in 1897, presided over the negotiations that created the Panama Canal. He loved tariffs, both as a way to fund the government and to protect domestic industry. And he courted, and was courted by, robber barons of the Gilded Age.

In his inaugural speech, Trump praised ‘great president’ William McKinley, remembered for his love of tariffs and assassinated in 1901

The President's order to rename Denali, North America's highest peak, back to Mount McKinley does not agree with Alaska senator.

The Journalist's Resource and Econofact recently hosted a webinar on covering tariffs. Watch the recording and read key takeaways.

UCCA director Phil Tinari discussed the changing museum landscape in China, with an especially close look at the rise of new institutions.

The fact check team is Kate Sinclair, Mary Marge Locker, and Michelle Harris. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta, Kristina Samulewski, and Adrian Rivera. The executive producer of “Times Opinion Audio” is Annie-Rose Strasser.

In a vibrant celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year, US school students tried their hand at calligraphy and relic-repairing to experience traditional Chinese culture through an innovative Cultural Open Day event at the Chinese consulate general in San Francisco.

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.