Beyond

Hundreds of Marines lost their lives in Helmand. Former Marine Christopher Jones returns to see what those losses achieved.

Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.

Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.

The Amazon CEO's vision of space settlements draws on 1970s thinking, without adding anything new.

In "Algiers, Third World Capital," Elaine Mokhtefi captures a world of camaraderie, shared ideals, and frequent miscommunication.

As the British Empire's power expanded, piracy became criminalized.

If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire.

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

Despite the Interior Department’s name, the agency has played a key role in the construction of American foreign policy and territorial expansion.

What did the Roosevelt administration know, and when?

Anti-Catholic sentiment in the States gave men like John Riley little reason to continue to pay allegiance to the stars and stripes.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

The Vaudeville star was at the height of her fame in Europe when WWII struck, and used her status for the allies.

Over the first half of the 20th century, the movement galvanized groups throughout the Americas who helped inaugurate what we think of today as global feminism.

What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?

On the erasure of American "territories" from US history.

Why Lincoln’s "one war at a time" doctrine saved the Union.

The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.

Much of the migrant "crisis" is blowback from decades of official U.S. policy in Central America.

Building large memorials to display power and dominance, the US government hoped to inspire Judeo-Christian and capitalist ideals with their cemeteries.

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.

It has long been an important element of U.S. international affairs.

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.