When Vladimir Putin daydreams, he imagines himself saluting a phalanx as it goose-steps across central Kyiv. In Donald Trump’s version of the fantasy, he is triumphantly floating through the Panama ...

President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the US Capitol, on Jan. 20, 2025. When President ...

What happens when a murdered father demands revenge, Cold War ghosts rise from the grave, and "Missus America" takes the stage as a living character? Welcome to Manifest Destiny, the searing new play ...

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security’s social media team has published a stream of content worthy of a meme-slinging basement dweller on 4chan. Grainy, ...

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 White House Twitter page quoted President Trump's Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore in a tweet that said: "Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into ...

Invoking language such as “manifest destiny” sends a signal about who belongs in America’s future in space and who doesn’t. In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea most commonly ...

In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation while ...