Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world’s population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth’s land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The British ...

After the Empire The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd Columbia University Press, 192 pp., $29.95 ACCORDING TO EMMANUEL TODD, a French demographer with a degree in anthropology from ...

All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?

All around us things are falling apart. Collectively, Americans are experiencing national and imperial decline. Can America save itself? Is this country, as presently constituted, even worth saving?

MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University Professor & Chair of the History Department Tim Roberts published a book in December with Cornell University Press titled "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in ...

Donald Trump hugs the flag of the United States of America at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2020. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally ...

America stands at a defining moment. The choices it makes now will determine whether it remains a leading global power or joins the ranks of fallen empires. Like Great Britain before it, America risks ...

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as ...

Harold Macmillan, perhaps the shrewdest British prime minister in the second half of the 20th century, recognized before many of his countrymen that Britain would henceforth have a diminished role in ...

This is American Empire, Splinter’s rolling series of articles exploring the power of the United States and the different ways it is unleashed upon the world. Read our other entries here. To try and ...

The ball may have dropped in Times Square last week, but that wasn’t the visual that truly marked the dawn of this new year. Instead, it was Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro being frog-marched onto a ...