Manifest destiny is a call to domination and erasure, a justification for the nation’s most brutal expansions. And it’s the message Trump led with on the first day of his second term.

President Trump vowed Monday to be the first commander-in-chief to put US astronauts on Mars. “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth ...

Chances are you haven't heard the term "manifest destiny" since high school history class. That is until President Trump's inaugural address last month, when he used it to call for America to ...

And yet, here we are, in a time when a cursory glance of the day’s news calls that ideology of Manifest Destiny to mind: The Gulf of America. Canada, the would-be 51st state. The Panama Canal ...

Manifest destiny is a 19th-century concept in the United States of the divine right to expand across the North American continent. Trump's reference of the doctrine follows other expansionist ...