President James K. Polk has returned to the White House as commentators find the thread of his themes in the man who brought ...

PREPARING FOR THE START of the Greatest American Cleanup, a Keep America Beautiful initiative for the nation's 250th ...

Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in 'We Tell Ourselves Stories.' ...

Trump's White House serves itself and its voracious, insatiable craving for land, power and money as if acquisition is a ...

Trump's White House serves itself and its voracious, insatiable craving for land, power and money as if acquisition is a God-given right.

Moving on from such fractured facts and scrambled history, Trump suggested the foreign policy principles that would guide his ...

Russell’s first novel since “Swamplandia!” takes place on a vast historical canvas and is shot through with elements of magic ...

Trump again called on the United States to send astronauts to Mars in his speech to a joint session of Congress.

It’s been a lofty goal America's leaders have set their sights on for generations, and President Donald Trump kicked off his ...

a 21st-century vision of manifest destiny, a belief in the United States’ right and obligation to expand. Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. To me, a historian of ...

President Trump’s foreign policy of militant nationalism and a new American Manifest Destiny will also cause more wars and other armed conflicts as the existing rules-based international order ...

Macdonald, realized the “National Dream” of building a transcontinental railway through the rugged and untamed Northwest Territories to fend off American manifest destiny, we have an opportunity to ...