For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

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During Donald Trump’s first term as president, the United States lurched from the absurdity of his lies to the use of his ...

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Mr Trump’s obsession with tariffs has long been known, but he offered a kaleidoscope of ever-changing rationales for them.

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The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to the 19th century.

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Jenna Deep is an undergraduate at Dickinson College, double majoring in archaeology and history. Her historical interests ...

From "Forrest Gump" to Harriet Tubman and American history, the star of this American Cruise Lines coastal itinerary is ...