President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

The Old South hated the tariff—but could it have been a “cause” of the civil war, given how the North rammed protective tariffs through Congress in 1861 and so often in years prior?

Soon after the first major protective tariff was enacted on a range of products (from pig iron to rope to woolen goods), a logroll formed that joined the Northeast and Midwest against the South.