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fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago
World politics

Trump's Hit-and-Run Presidency

Trump's military actions against Venezuela and Iran represent regime-change nihilism rather than traditional imperialism, characterized by indifference to outcomes and a bomb-first approach.
fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago
US politics

A Conflict Without Reason Has Become a Dangerous Holy War

Trump mirrors McKinley's imperialist approach by justifying military action through shifting rationales, allowing religious supporters to impose moral frameworks on undefined policy objectives.
World politics
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

Trump's Hit-and-Run Presidency

Trump's military actions against Venezuela and Iran represent regime-change nihilism rather than traditional imperialism, characterized by indifference to outcomes and a bomb-first approach.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again | Mehdi Hasan

Marco Rubio publicly endorsed American imperialism and territorial expansion, praising historical Western empires and receiving enthusiastic approval from European elites.
fromAxios
2 months ago

From "America First" to "Manifest Destiny": MAGA eyes foreign expansion

But reframed as hemispheric dominance, the right's expansionist impulse fits a civilizational worldview: America as the enforcer of the West, bending weaker nations to its will. What they're saying: In the days after President Trump's stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro, even some of MAGA's loudest non-interventionists began casting strategic lands in America's hemisphere - including Colombia, Cuba and Greenland. "How can you get more 'America First' than Manifest Destiny 2.0?" "War Room" host Steve Bannon told NBC News.
US politics
History
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Early Days of American Imperialism

Mark Twain used a satirical rewrite of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to expose American hypocrisy in overseas imperialism and the Philippines war.
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