| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Just days into the new Trump Administration, imperial expansion is already a key theme, with his inaugural address using the phrase "manifest destiny" to describe U.S. space exploration. More terrestrial targets are also in sight, especially the Panama Canal and Greenland. | In Made by History, historian Julie Greene argues that Trump's framing of the history of the canal and his threats against Panama are powerful because they tap into deeply-rooted mythologies that have projected the canal as an idealistic symbol of U.S. global power. And Aaron Coy Moulton writes about how, in the 1970s, diverse factions on the right coalesced to oppose ceding U.S. control over the canal to Panama. "Keeping the Canal" made little sense diplomatically but it was a powerful partisan rallying cry. | Also in the Trump Administration's sights is Greenland. Seeking to acquire footholds in the Arctic is a tried and true tactic for superpowers in times of conflict and ambition; as James Patton Rogers and Caroline Kennedy Pipe show, the tactic goes back to the 1867 U.S. purchase of Alaska. The problem for Trump is that, unlike in past cases, Greenland isn't interested in selling. | |
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| | | |  | Why Trump Wants Greenland—And Why He Probably Won't Get It | He's not the first to set his sights on the island. |
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|  | The Panama Canal Could Help Unify Trump's Fractious Movement | In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue. |
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|  | Trump's Talk of the Panama Canal Taps Into Old Myths About U.S. Power | By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence. |
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|  | When Political History Happens Over Dinner | Politics doesn't just unfold in documents and legislation—it also takes shape off the record in social environments. |
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|  | The History Behind Rebecca Yarros' 'Fourth Wing' Series | How feminism and debates about women riding horses helped produce first, horse-girl stories, and then dragon-babe fiction. |
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|  | Why MLK Jr.'s Message Still Matters in the Second Trump Era | Dr. King's dream for bipartisanship and collaboration is as urgent as ever in the new Trump era, writes John Hope Bryant |
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| This week in 1954: George Balanchine |  | The Jan. 25, 1954, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "'Ballet is important and significant—yes,' he says. 'But first of all, it is a pleasure. No one would enjoy watching a group of dancers jump about the stage aimlessly, no matter how well they jumped. After all, a pig can jump—but who wants to see a pig jump?' Nobody has a better right than George Balanchine to decide what ballet audiences do and do not want to see. As head man of the young (five years old) New York City Ballet Company, he has enticed record-breaking numbers of watchers into theaters on two continents; as a choreographer, he has ballets in the repertories of every top company in the Western world." |
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| | This week in 1973: Marlon Brando |  | The Jan. 22, 1973, cover of TIME |
| Bob Peak |
| "What little is known of his true nature comes from a handful of his friends and associates. By their testimony, he is intelligent, warm, charming, compassionate, humorous and unpretentious, as well as undisciplined, boorish, gloomy, supercilious, cruel and downright bent. About the only thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only for laughs. 'Actors have to observe,' he says. 'They have to know how much spit you've got in your mouth and where the weight of your elbows is. I could sit all day in the Optimo Cigar Store telephone booth and just watch the people pass by.'" |
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| This week in 2014: Janet Yellen |  | The Jan 20, 2014, cover of TIME |
| Peter Hapak |
| "On Jan. 6, Janet Louise Yellen was confirmed by the Senate as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. As Fed chair, she is responsible for deciding where and how money flows, not just in the U.S. but also in much of the world, given the dollar's position as the global reserve currency. She is the first woman to hold the job…The diminutive 67-year-old Yellen smiles often and comes across as something like your favorite aunt, if your aunt had a chair with her own brass nameplate in the middle of the 22-ft.-long Fed Board of Governors conference table. When she's not charting the economic course of the free world, Yellen is a foodie who likes to travel with her Nobel Prize–winning husband, stopping at any Michelin-starred restaurants they encounter along the way." |
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