The amount of money we spend on humanitarian efforts is far too small to be considered a major area of budgetary waste.

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

Before Trump, was Greenland on the radar of American imperialists ... What’s the connection between that name and this sense of empire? There was some—not a huge amount, but some—discussion ...

Britain’s budget deficit: 4.7% of GDP. France’s deficit: 5.5% of GDP. America’s deficit: 6.5% of GDP. France and Britain face ...

It oversaw the world’s most far-flung empire through the 18th and 19th centuries before war spending, including the fight ...

I guess getting back to this sort of why am I neutral rather than happy right now is because we are conducting open heart surgery on the vital organs of the American empire. And I am pro empire to the ...

which offered what the historian Frederick Jackson Turner once said the American West promised: “perennial rebirth.” Mr. Trump is tapping into this social and intellectual history, promising ...

The Worlds of Noam Chomsky. If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is the most famous critic of US empire in the world.

It should now be painfully clear: the United States operates as a vast imperial power, guided by an entrenched state bureaucracy that persists regardless of who holds office. Whether it is Trump, ...

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 ...