The America First Committee (AFC) was formed in September 1940 and operated until the Pearl Harbor attack. In all that time, though, historical attention focuses on just one shameful moment ...

This toxic brew of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia increasingly found its way into a growing isolationist movement that crested in 1940 with the establishment of the America First Committee.

Later, the America First Committee campaigned against United States’ entry into World War II. Now the slogan is being used to justify the United States’ withdrawal from international treaties ...

Every new presidential administration brings with it a degree of uncertainty regarding potential shifts in the Committee on ...

It became the rallying cry of an isolationist political movement in the 1930s, leading to the foundation of the America First Committee (AFC) in 1940. The AFC was supported by figures including the ...

Past leaders have included retired Brigadier Gen. Robert E. Wood, a founder of the isolationist America First Committee before World War II, and conservative activist Phlylis Schafly, who vocally ...

After unveiling the blueprint of his federal budget, U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington has gained the backing of President Trump and ...