In the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, Trump could assert a right to intervene diplomatically, or perhaps even militarily, to prevent some extraregional red team from ensconcing itself in the Americas.

The new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine echoes a similar set of ideas promoted by Teddy Roosevelt a century earlier—but differs in at least three ways. The White House has released its ...

About a month before All This Happened, I wrote something of a primer on the Monroe Doctrine and the several “corollaries” hung on it by ambitious presidents through the year. The most heinous of ...

This is the first part in a two-part series on the record of American imperialism in Venezuela. Part two is available here. With the largest US armada ever assembled off the coasts of South America ...

Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents. Donald Trump is uninteresting and uninterested to the extreme and is a political obscurantist. Nevertheless, Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump likes putting his name on things, so maybe it was inevitable he'd get his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Truth be told, what the president's just-released national ...

The shade of Theodore Roosevelt is grinning. President Donald Trump has been holding forth about matters of geopolitical import. Some of his remarks reflect his tongue-in-cheek style. Not for nothing ...

Of the many foreign policy blunders of the Obama administration, the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine was the most dangerous. The Monroe Doctrine, the brainchild of Secretary of State John Quincy ...