Before attending Men on Boats at the Des Moines Playhouse's newly renovated black box Studio Theatre this past weekend, I ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said the United States would be a nation that “expands its territory” and referenced the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny into the stars ...

With calm enough waters for even the least confident swimmers and the mellow sounds of Dune Preserve in the background, Rendezvous is an idyllic retreat for vacationers looking to escape Shoal Bay ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its ... to bear his name before president Barack Obama renamed the Alaskan mountain to Denali, the name used by Alaska Natives.

When President Donald Trump invoked the phrase “manifest destiny” during his inaugural address Monday and celebrated “our American ancestors” for having “won the Wild West,” he used ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Several readers and other commentators (including Jonathan ...

Trump wants to carry out another “manifest destiny” —but this time on Mars.. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars." A philosophy of manifest destiny in the 19th century drove ...

So I have answered my own question. A former guiding principle of our country was Manifest Destiny. Our current guiding principle evidently is Manifest Insanity. And that leads to another question.

The roar of the grizzly, war cries of the Blackfeet, and the lonesome song of the wind ushered 18-year-old Joe Meek to a world of the mountain men. Death was a constant companion and if you weren’t at ...