In 1865, in the wake of the Civil War, the U.S. began looking to expand its influence on the world stage. This happened at ...

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

In 2019, then-President Donald Trump suggested the United States “buy Greenland” — as a matter of national security. Now in ...

From the Reconstruction era to the Cold War, multiple administrations have tried (and failed) to acquire the Arctic island.

Two scandals involving social experiments with children and forced birth control for girls have put a spotlight on Denmark's treatment of Greenlanders. US President Donald Trump seems eager to exploit ...

Interest in buying Greenland has "popped up from time to time in American politics," Tom Høyem, Denmark's former minister to ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

Here’s what happened the last three times the U.S. tried to acquire Greenland.

Rather than appeal to Denmark’s goodwill, President Trump’s rhetoric risks trapping the U.S. in a cycle of increasing ...

The road south from Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, runs out at the tip of a blizzard-scoured peninsula stretching into the ...