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Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

Smoot-Hawley tariffs led to greatly diminished global trade — and, some experts argue, exacerbated the Great Depression.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal,” and President John F. Kennedy declared America ...

Built on a swamp with a busy road going right through it, what’s now Ronald Reagan National Airport was initially lampooned in news articles as ‘a disgrace.’ ...

What follows are my initial responses to Trump’s creation of the External Revenue Service, or ERS, future rival of the IRS.

Donald Trump’s first week in office shows he has returned with a plan - and knows how to avoid some of the chaos of his first ...

Kristy Milligan was getting ready to leave work. She runs Westside Cares, a nonprofit in Old Colorado City that provides food ...

Commerce Secretary and future United States President Herbert Hoover approved, and WNAX was born in 1922 ... “We had a Big Bird album and we had a Charlie Daniels Christmas album that we signed on ...

The 31st commander-in-chief lived at the Georgian country house in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1902 when he worked for a ...