A Global, Invisible Empire
The United States isn’t just the shape we see on a map — it’s a sprawling empire whose reach touches not just in formal territories and colonies but all corners of the world.
2 Articles by: Daniel Immerwahr
Daniel Immerwahr is an assistant professor of history at Northwestern University. He is the author of How to Hide an Empire and Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development.
Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty
Decades of US-backed community development programs have left behind a disastrous economic and political legacy.