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

In his worldview, the American president believes that the strongest has the right and duty to use his position to get what he needs, regardless of the consequences. Last Friday, just before boarding ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — "Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

Donald Trump has long sought to make anything he controls bigger. By Maggie Haberman and Jess Bidgood President-elect Donald Trump is still a week away from taking office, but his musings about ...

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 ...

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 ...