The same is true of Alaska. How have U.S. courts been used in tandem with America’s empire-building? When the U.S. starts claiming large populated overseas territories, it starts defining itself ...

Gaza is not an aberration. It is a mirror. And in that mirror, young America no longer sees empire — it sees its moral ruin.

In Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Ray Dalio—a billionaire investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater ...

It is also a history of American near-empire, tracing its impact from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Central America won independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, spent two years as part ...

NACLA is currently accepting proposals for our Winter 2025 issue on the Americas as both site and system of imperial experimentation and return. Send us your pitches by May 2, 2025.

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

Journalist Katherine Stewart charts the rise of the Christian right and its influence in the Trump administration in her new ...