This arrangement changed with the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913. Now, there was an alternative to using tariffs to ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

The recent whirlwind of Trump administration foreign policy measures―many reversing those of the Biden ...

Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...