The American South had the same apartheid system as South Africa, so the U.S. couldn’t successfully contend with the Soviet Union with its own officially sanctioned apartheid system (Jim Crow). The ...

Donald Trump, and the naivete of his supporters and opponents, is bringing about the collapse of the American empire. From Rome to the Soviet Union in 1991, empires have usually collapsed from within.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The meltdown across Western capitals in response to Donald Trump’s comments about letting Russia have its way with Nato members if ...

Trump has replaced the Reagan NSS’s goals of “world freedom, peace and prosperity” with the goals of American freedom, American prosperity, and American peace. Omolesky, a human rights lawyer who ...

America stands at a defining moment. The choices it makes now will determine whether it remains a leading global power or joins the ranks of fallen empires. Like Great Britain before it, America risks ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the recent gifts given to President Donald Trump by the Swiss government. He argues that the incident is ...

This is American Empire, Splinter’s rolling series of articles exploring the power of the United States and the different ways it unleashes it upon the world. Read our other entries here. There are ...

Benjamin Balthaser teaches multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University in South Bend. He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left ...

The American election season is, once again, approaching its zenith, but it won’t be long before another four years have passed and a new contest has rolled in. It is a relentless cycle, a shameless ...

Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Bradley. President Donald Trump returned to Washington in January with a mandate from the American people to end mass migration ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents On the Tropic of Cancer: transitions and transformations in the U.S. imperial state / Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney ...

Fracking, or the shale revolution, arrested the decline in American oil production and propelled the US to the number one ...