The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.

President Donald Trump recently invoked "manifest destiny" to outline a bold vision for America's space program. But what ...

"Manifest destiny," a phrase Donald Trump used Monday as he promised to take the Panama Canal, is a call to domination and ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and ...

In February 2024, President Joe Biden reiterated U.S. policy that dates back almost 50 years, which posits that so-called ...

“WE WILL PURSUE OUR MANIFEST DESTINY,” declared Donald Trump in his inaugural address, not only here on Earth but “into the ...

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn ...

There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in ...

Trump pretended to know nothing of the far-right’s dystopian agenda for his second term. But in his Inauguration Day remarks, ...

“We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on planet ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And ...