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Follow RT on The US loves to lecture other countries about freedom, democracy, and self-determination, but its treatment of its unincorporated territories tells a completely different story. At the turn of the 19th century, the United States of America officially became exactly what it had aspired to be for so long: a living, breathing empire not unlike those that helped create it. As part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War, the United States gained control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, while having also unilaterally annexed Hawaii earli...

THURSDAY’s Variety reports that a congressional resolution has been introduced, co-sponsored by Delegate Kilili, denouncing the Insular Cases —  a set of U.S. Supreme Court decisions limiting the reach of the U.S. Constitution in outlying offshore jurisdictions. The resolution focuses on some obnoxious language in those decisions, but overlooks their actual effect, which is to provide constitutional breathing room for a robust variety of cultural norms, values and priorities to exist and thrive under a common political umbrella, instead of requiring one size to fit all. Without t...

" " People go about their day on Guam, one of the five inhabited U.S. territories. Henri Oftana/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The island of Guam is about 30 miles (48.2 kilometers) long and maybe only 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) across at its widest point. A tiny island like that, admittedly, is easy to lose sight of way out in the Pacific, some 3,800 miles (6,115 kilometers) west of Honolulu. Who knows what's going on there? Yet something no one should be confused about concerns Guam's allegiances. Due to its designation as a U.S. territory and its position on the other side of the intern...

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — As a third-class U.S. citizen, I’m compelled to respond to Dylan Kioshi’s recent letter decrying the oft-repeated shibboleth of the "'second-class' status of territorial

The Atlantic We deserve nothing less than the full rights of citizenship, including the right to vote. March 11, 2021 Sarah Silbiger / The New York Times Last month, I served as a House impeachment manager in the trial of President Donald Trump. My presence on the floor of the U.S. Senate carried a great deal of meaning for me. It also said a lot about America. A Black girl who split her childhood between housing projects in Brooklyn and St. Croix could grow up to become a member of Congress who holds a former president to account. But I was the only Black woman in the room. And although I wa...