It would not be a stretch to see the United States's hundreds of military bases outside of its borders as a type of empire ... forward to welcoming the new American ambassador.

Grandin is a professor at Yale and the author of the forthcoming “America, América: A New History of the New ... Jackson Turner once said the American West promised: “perennial rebirth.” ...

So now, after Panama, Greenland and Canada, Donald Trump demands Gaza should also be part of his New American Empire. Under his brilliant rule, of course. That’s four countries in just two weeks ...

But there is a division within the right over whether the goal of Trumpian foreign policy is to right-size American empire, using restraint and rebalancing to sustain a dominant position in a ...

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The American empire is internally flawed, a fact that anti-imperialists both left and right should appreciate. The United States’ national debt is approaching $22 trillion with a current federal ...