A long-term shift toward drier conditions is reshaping landscapes and livelihoods across the globe. Known as aridification, ...

President Donald Trump is either blissfully unaware or simply doesn’t care that the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, ...

As the Trump administration is set to cross the 100-day mark, here's a look at how we came to judge new presidents.

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs didn’t save agriculture. Trump’s tariffs probably won’t save manufacturing.

Hawley, aimed to safeguard US agricultural interests in the wake of the 1929 stock ... This further aggravated the Great ...

Ironically enough, the storm disrupted theHouse Agriculture Committee’s meeting ... andAmericans were experiencing the worst of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.As the members of the ...

but these well-intentioned policies would prove of little merit when Oklahomans andAmericans were experiencing the worst of the Great Depression in the early 1930s.As the members of the House ...

Hoover proposed "limited" tariffs on agricultural imports to help boost ... world trade increased the severity and duration of the Great Depression," Conesa said in an email to Newsday.

Yet agriculture lagged behind the country as ... couldn’t have started the Great Depression, since Hoover signed it into law in June of 1930, after the market crash the previous year.

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29 ... Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs. But a chief goal was ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29 ... Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs. But a chief goal was ...