Beyond

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

It made itself bigger.

He's not the first to set his sights on the island.

The uproar over Trump’s remarks about the Canal recalls a lively debate from the late 1970s.

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

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.

A historian of U.S. empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William McKinley.

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

Throughout its history, the vast Arctic island has been viewed by competing powers as a strategic prize and geopolitical asset.

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

Trump’s canal comments resurrect a forgotten American interest.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law is of little import compared to the American occupation of the country.

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.

Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.

Why should American exceptionalism end at the red-light district?

The decline of Southern industries paved the way for plantations in Fiji and Australia, where victims of “blackbirding” endured horrific working conditions.

After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s oldest, most direct ties to the Holy Land were established by a Palestinian Arab.

Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.

For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the 19th century.

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

Charles Lindbergh’s ideology prefigured Donald Trump’s—and was rightly disgraced.

Those who draw a line from today to that infamous historical moment when democracy slid into authoritarianism are missing a key difference.