Manifest destiny was a failure of the American past. We shouldn’t talk about it with nostalgia or fondness, in the same way we don’t talk about slavery or the subjugation of women with fondness.

His own Manifest Destiny also includes 21st century twists. "We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars ...

Chances are you haven't heard the term "manifest destiny" since high school history class. That is until President Trump's inaugural address last month, when he used it to call for America to ...

Trump takes ‘America First’ to its expansionist endpoint. The Manifest Destiny of MAGA.

NEUMAN: O'Hanlon explains that manifest destiny was coined in 1845 to describe the belief in America's divine right to occupy the western lands of North America, despite that Indigenous people and ...

But when Trump talks about Canada, Greenland and Panama, he also taps into manifest destiny's source code — the Monroe Doctrine, first espoused by President James Monroe in 1823 as a warning to ...

But when Trump talks about Canada, Greenland and Panama, he also taps into manifest destiny's source code — the Monroe Doctrine, first espoused by President James Monroe in 1823 as a warning to ...