The Americas have long been strategically important to the United States. However, no president in decades has done enough to combat the rise in foreign manufacturing investment in the Southern ...

US presidents have long pledged to prioritize the Western Hemisphere — to put the Americas First, so to speak. Donald Trump is doing it today. The world waits to see if Trump will strike Venezuela, as ...

The United States has a narrow window to reshape its economic future and its role in the Americas if it moves decisively. A network of special economic zones could secure critical minerals supply ...

WSJ’s Vera Bergengruen explains how the heightened rhetoric and military moves by the Trump administration and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro could escalate. Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images; ...

Editor’s Note: This is the third article in a four-part series. The first article, “America’s Quantum Manufacturing Moment,” was published on Oct. 13, 2025, and the second, “The Supply Chain ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

Once a relic of 19th-century U.S. diplomacy, the Monroe Doctrine is back. Two centuries after President James Monroe warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas, his namesake doctrine is ...