“Professional American,” wrote Greil Marcus in “John Wayne Listening.” “He wears the mantle of Manifest Destiny easily, happy to represent America to the world, to itself, and to himself ...

The Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada, Gaza. Each time Trump hints at taking over a territory, he taps into an American myth synonymous with violence and self-righteous entitlement: Manifest Destiny ...

The manifest destiny of Jews may be compared to that of Normans in 1066, ... To them, these sacred sites were symbols of the Jewish occupation and control of the Palestinian people.

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 ...