President Donald Trump continues to push for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

The idea of the United States expanding its territory by purchasing distant land is not new. One of the most striking ...

Separated by the narrow-cold Bering Strait, where continental America and Eurasia nearly meet, lies Alaska, the US's largest state. This is where President Donald Trump will meet his Russian ...

It's a vast territory. Gracing the Arctic, much of it is frozen. It's sparsely populated. It holds vast natural resources.

Okay, maybe that’s a tad of a stretch, but Newsweek took the comment seriously enough to ask “why it matters.” Journalist Natalie Venegas noted that, thanks to “Seward’s Folly,” the U.S. bought Alaska ...