Trump, believe it or not, isn’t the first president or elected U.S. official to propose buying Greenland. William Seward, the Secretary of State responsible for purchasing Alaska from Russia in ...
This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.
Seward’s ice box, and Johnson’s polar bear garden proliferated. William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons) Unfortunately, the idea of Seward’s ...
Greenland is not an island; it is a mirror — a reflection of the most pressing issues of our time: power, resources, ...
As Donald Trump makes his return to the White House, he is poised to shatter long-held taboos, particularly those surrounding ...
Can a country legally buy another country? What’s the argument for trying to buy it? And, is the rationale rooted in reality?
Greenland’s prime minister weighed in on President-elect Trump’s proposal to acquire the island territory, arguing that the nation intends to keep working toward independence from Denmark ...
As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his proposal to expand U.S. control over Greenland, many of his allies in the MAGA movement have defended the move in conventional foreign policy terms.