The Trump administration is bragging about America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere with a provocative image of a baseball bat-wielding Donald Trump stomping over global allies. Emboldened by the extraordinary capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro,

In December 1823, James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, articulated what has been named the Monroe doctrine, which would mature into an essential principle of American foreign policy. One of Monroe’s predecessors and America’s third ...

Mr. Grandin is a professor of history at Yale. One wonders what goes on in the minds of the architects of President Trump’s foreign policy. It seems as if they have all taken time to study the classic history books on the causes of the world wars ...

This weekend, Democracy Now! co-host Juan González gives the opening plenary at American University’s one-day conference, “Burying 200 Years of the U.S. Monroe Doctrine,” marking 200 years since the Monroe Doctrine, the foreign policy directive from ...

It was intended to ward off European colonization or other interference in the Western Hemisphere. In return, the U.S. also agreed to stay out of European affairs.