After that, outright territorial conquest mostly ceased, but the U.S. did not give up imperialism. As I trace in my 2023 book, “ Dying by the Sword ,” the country instead embraced a subtler ...

Our history of imperialism is full of invasions, wars and misadventures, but I doubt that in 2025, it will act as a caution against aggression. President Trump has shown that he means what he says.

Imperialist rhetoric is becoming a mark of President Donald Trump’s second term. From asserting that the U.S. will “take over” the Gaza Strip, Greenland and the Panama Canal to apparently ...

Albert Beveridge in a speech to the legislature in January 1900, with the war of conquest in the Philippines less than a year old, made explicit the aims of US imperialism in Asia.

As promised, the Republic of the Philippines became a sovereign and independent nation on July 4, 1946. After witnessing the handover, MacArthur announced, "America buried imperialism here today." ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University (THE CONVERSATION) Imperialist rhetoric is ...

Trump’s threats on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine and Panama revive old-school US imperialism of dominating other nations by force, after decades of nuclear deterrence Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts ...