If you want to understand how an empire gets its way in the twenty-first century, look past the polite communiqués and listen to the heavy boot dropping on sovereign soil.
By Maya Ellison ·
In 2019, Donald Trump tried to buy Greenland like it was a distressed strip mall in the Mahoning Valley. He called it a "large real estate deal," and the world laughed him out of the room.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
I grew up in a town where "the deal" was always a death sentence for the people who actually lived there.
By Maya Ellison ·
Donald Trump does not deal in nuances, and for once, his lack of tact is the most honest thing about this announcement.
By Emilio Quesada ·
The arithmetic of international relations, I always maintain, is rarely clean—it’s messy, prone to panic, and often requires a painful commitment to boring competence.
By Dana Whitfield ·