Monroe Doctrine, Then And Now

The headlines move fast, but America’s core ideas move the needle. We open with a surprising deep dive into the Monroe Doctrine—penned by John Quincy Adams and issued by President James Monroe—and connect it to modern policy choices around Venezuela and hemispheric security. When you judge action by founding-era principles instead of social media noise, foreign policy looks less like a personality contest and more like constitutional muscle memory at work. From there, we head west to a major...