Since taking office, President Donald Trump has expressed interest — unprecedented in the modern era — in expanding the size ...

While purchasing territory from another country would be an unusual move for a modern U.S. president, much of America’s states and territories today came through purchase or expansion.

When I first started writing for Pipe Dream in 2023, one of the first potential ideas I wanted to explore was the idea to ...

A strong majority of Americans, 66%, are opposed to U.S. territorial expansion accomplished “by invading other countries and territories,” according to a recent poll from More in Common.

In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward all the way to the Pacific -- in bloody campaigns that saw the ...

The bipartisan bill would double the area of U.S. territorial waters to 24 nautical miles from shore. The goal of the bill is to help curb human trafficking and stop the flow of illegal drugs into ...