Donald Trump has spent considerable time on the campaign trail this year invoking a president who has been dead for more than 123 years: William McKinley. The reason: McKinley and Trump's shared ...

In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a ...

You would expect a Republican president to name-drop Ronald Reagan. Or Abraham Lincoln. Even Calvin Coolidge. But William McKinley?

Good morning. I’m Ian Prasad Philbrick, your new Starting Point writer. I’m a born-and-raised Mainer and used to write a newsletter for The New York Times, so I’m excited to get back to my roots while ...