Beyond

The U.S. has a long history of attempting territorial expansion and economic dominance. Is there anything new in Trump's foreign policy stance?

With the expiration of the arms agreement between Washington and Moscow, the world faces a new era of nuclear competition.

In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling.

Why is the global right so obsessed with the idea?

In securing US support for Britain during WWII, lords Lothian and Halifax set the standard for future ambassadors.

A new book traces a global upheaval stretching from Philadelphia and London to Freetown and Madras.

The American Legion at home and abroad.

The US has grown wary of long occupations. Dropping the pretense of exporting democracy, the Trump administration now seeks to force existing powers to comply.

On the US-backed coups d'état in South America.

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

How a dispute between American and Panamanian high school students over which country’s flag to fly escalated into days of violence.

His interest in the 11th president’s legacy has conjured up the specter of manifest destiny.

The old, postwar world is being dismantled by its American overlord.

The Trump administration’s immigration policies hearken back to the racist 1924 Immigration Act, meant to whiten the US.

The Early Republic’s maritime jurisprudence is even more relevant given the immense power of the modern executive.

Trump has upended a long tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or profit.

His invasion of Venezuela and abduction of Nicolás Maduro recall U.S. imperialism of the early twentieth century—and may similarly lead to global catastrophe.

Donald Trump is once again threatening war with Iran just six months after bombing the Islamic Republic in June.

How American history has valorized a draw.

Before Donald Trump's takeover proposal for Gaza, another New York real estate magnate had his own plans for the region.

Reports on the May 1960 downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union offer a case study in Cold War posturing and misdirection.

Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?

Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA’s Iran–Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie.

A refresher on the original intent of John Quincy Adams's 1823 policy statement in the wake of the recent announcement of the "Trump Corollary."

Defeating the Nazi war machine necessitated not just military might, but also skillful diplomacy.

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government.

How Condor launched a wave of cross-border assassinations and disappearances in Latin America.

What U.S. policymakers should know about U.S.-Africa relations.

How the concept of "deterrence" went from explaining criminal behavior to becoming a nuclear strategy.

A new book offers bitter commentary on the onset of the age of American empire.