It’s massive. That should be part of the United States,’” Trump told our colleague Peter Baker. (On maps showing the Mercator projection, Greenland looks considerably larger than the United ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

The pattern is clear: In the Trump era, a new Manifest Destiny is here, accelerating protectionism and expansionism at the cost of the powerless. This is a “United States that feels far too ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward ...

James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States serving from 1845 to 1849. The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...