– In 1846, the target was continental expansion, not clear how far downwards and upwards, but essentially contiguous ...

Sudan Maps tracking each side's areas of control have been collated using open-source techniques, social media videos, and reports from local media. As the RSF and SAF's territories have expanded ...

including my home state of Oregon (then a territory jointly occupied by the U.S. and Britain); he wrote: “….And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Tracking Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a brutal task as blood is spilled like water for mere metres of land on the frontline. But the broader picture is stark. Since 2014 ...

Each time Trump hints at taking over a territory, he taps into an American myth synonymous with violence and self-righteous entitlement: Manifest Destiny. Early in the nineteenth century ...

That and the premise: “a true(ish) history” of the exploits of 10 men on four boats in 1869, rowing west on the Colorado River as they trek the territory for the benefit of the U.S. government.

"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 ...