Unz, like Roberts, isn’t opposed to protective tariffs, but he explains fully Trump’s irrationality. Trump has confused trade deficits with tariffs, leading him to absurd figures: “For example, our ...

We should go back to that system! President Lincoln enacted the Morrill Tariff of 1861 to fund Union efforts in the Civil War and protect northern industries, providing munitions and other ...

In 1861, Republicans enacted the Morrill Tariff, which doubled the tax rate on hundreds of imported goods to raise money for the Union Army during the Civil War and protect northern business. The most ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

The 1861 Morrill Tariff Act, with its steep increase of over 60 per cent duties, was a declaration of self-sufficiency. For decades, protectionist measures worked. America’s factories roared to life, ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

"We're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals . . . when they hear that they will leave China, they will leave other places because . . . most of their product is ...

A 27-year-old Mitchell man died Tuesday afternoon in a crash about 2 miles west of Bridgeport in Morrill County in Nebraska's Panhandle.

U.S. stock market plunged minutes after the opening bell as global markets were rocked by President Donald Trump's new tariff announcement on Wednesday — 'Liberation Day.' Launching a historic ...