The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and ...

Trump’s plans for a U.S.-led occupation and redevelopment of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip would be costly, deadly and ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars ...

So I have answered my own question. A former guiding principle of our country was Manifest Destiny. Our current guiding principle evidently is Manifest Insanity. And that leads to another question.

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Several readers and other commentators (including Jonathan ...

“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on planet Mars,” he said. Trump’s comments sparked an enthusiastic response ...

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 ...