The new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine echoes a similar set of ideas promoted by Teddy Roosevelt a century earlier—but differs in at least three ways. The White House has released its ...
Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents. Donald Trump is uninteresting and uninterested to the extreme and is a political obscurantist. Nevertheless, Trump’s ...
In 1823, President Monroe set out what became known as the Monroe Doctrine in a message to Congress. The Monroe Doctrine had a number of elements but its most notable was the declaration that if any ...
The Trump administration unveiled a so-called comprehensive national security blueprint reviving Monroe Doctrine to counter foreign influence in Western Hemisphere, essentially plagiarizing the ...