Editorial: Groping for Greenland
Published on February 10, 2026
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson consummated the Louisiana Purchase, adding upwards of 800,000 square miles (no one knew for sure) to the 27-year-old United States of America. Sixty-four years later, in 1867, Secretary of State William Seward brought off his “folly,” obtaining from czarist Russia what eventually became […]