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The legacy of Nixon's strategic ambiguity of acknowledging China's claim to Taiwan without fully committing.

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

Musk and Trump are capitalizing on decades of confusion and broken promises to lay waste to a crucial agency.

The president says he wants to be peacemaker—but his heroes were warmongers.

Though it may seem like a new topic of concern, the glaciated landscape of Greenland has floated in and out of American politics for decades.

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 

Newly declassified documents reveal how Israel operated under the noses of U.S. inspectors.

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

King George and George Washington, featured in an upcoming exhibit.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials.

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.

Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

It made itself bigger.

He's not the first to set his sights on the island.

The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.

Throughout its history, the vast Arctic island has been viewed by competing powers as a strategic prize and geopolitical asset.

Queen Marie-Louise outlived most of her family, yet her story about the revolution and its aftermath was rarely consulted by those writing the era’s history.

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.