I came across an old book at an estate sale. Its title caught my eye: “Our New Possessions.” Its cover featured the Statue of ...

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Foreign aid is seen as especially wasteful because the money doesn’t flow back to the American taxpayer, and is especially vulnerable to abuse when it flows into countries run by corrupt ...

But there is a division within the right over whether the goal of Trumpian foreign policy is to right-size American empire, using restraint and rebalancing to sustain a dominant position in a ...

Mr. Grandin is a professor at Yale and the author of the forthcoming “America, América: A New History of the New World” and other books. Donald Trump won the White House twice on a promise to ...

THE SCOPE OF contemporary US dominance is unparalleled in human history. America has 752 military facilities in 130 countries, some of them until recently part of the Soviet empire. What the American ...

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Love, American Style, Truer than the Red, White and Blue. Love, American Style, That’s me and you. And on a star-spangled night my love. You can rest your head on my shoulder. Out by the dawn’s early ...