President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by rewarding allies and punishing rivals. That has upended the ...

In an escalation of militarism toward Latin America, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the start of Operation Southern Spear to target so-called ...

THIS is the baffling moment Venezuelan despot Nicolas Maduro belts out hit song “Imagine” by John Lenon in a desperate peace ...

The history of Western hegemony can be split into two separate eras. Until 1945, the West may have ruled the world, but it did so as a collection of competing states rather than a single entity. In ...

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s From Across ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Oct. 27, 2025 (AP photo by Mark Schiefelbein). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new ...

As the U.S. continues conducting deadly strikes against vessels it claims are involved in drug trafficking, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth again described the "narco-terrorists" the U.S. has been ...

The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Western Hemisphere as the US continues to target suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth deployed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Western Hemisphere to aid the military‘s effort to dismantle the drug cartels in Central and South America. The ...

The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Western Hemisphere as the U.S. continues to target suspected drug smuggling vessels in the ...