Beyond

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials.

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

How America’s search for total security keeps making the world more dangerous.

Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”

The left case for an independent Canada.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

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.

The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.

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.