Donald Trump is not the first US president to push for territorial expansion. Throughout history, the United States acquired ...

A year after Donald Trump revived Manifest Destiny, expansionist rhetoric has returned to US policy debates, placing ...

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

Beginning with the annexation of Texas, which voted to become the 28th state in 1845, Polk aggressively expanded America’s ...

Donald Trump is not the first American president to push for territorial expansion. Throughout history, the United States ...

Of all the buzz phrases obviously in need of retirement, “meet the moment” stands high on the list. No, Alyssa from accounting did not “meet the moment” with her Slack message, nor does some political ...

After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial ...

"State of Our Union" exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography bring expectation-defying images of the border wall, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Mount Rushmore.

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of ...

The prime minister also tells the US president that security in the Arctic remains a priority "for all Nato allies".

Trump's demands over Greenland are a rude awakening in a moment fraught with risk.

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