Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward ...

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

Trump wants to carry out another “manifest destiny” —but this time on Mars.. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Several readers and other commentators (including Jonathan ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars." A philosophy of manifest destiny in the 19th century drove ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and contributing to events like the Louisiana Purchase, Texas annexation, and the Mexican ...

So I have answered my own question. A former guiding principle of our country was Manifest Destiny. Our current guiding principle evidently is Manifest Insanity. And that leads to another question.