Can a country legally buy another country? What’s the argument for trying to buy it? And, is the rationale rooted in reality?
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Shopping For Greenland
President-elect Donald Trump’s attempts to secure Greenland are rooted in legitimate national security concerns—but to make any progress towards this goal, he must first win the support of its people.
Greenlandic politician and Inuit educator Aleqa Hammond shares her top ways to experience the country, from sampling Greenlandic cuisine to viewing the Northern Lights in Ilulissat.
Greenland is the world's largest island, but most of it is covered by ice. Its southern tip, however, is sprinkled with picturesque towns and villages that are isolated from each other.
Negotiations over an 836,000-square-mile island may fall to a close friend of Elon Musk with experience in deal-making. Just not that kind of deal-making.
According to a common variation of this argument, gaining a greater degree of control over Greenland — either by buying it, annexing it or striking a new deal with its government — would serve America’s immediate geopolitical and economic interests,
Greenland, a vast but sparsely populated Arctic island, has been transformed by the climate crisis in recent decades.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks about his ambitions for buying Greenland from Denmark and retaking the Panama Canal despite a treaty.
A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University found a little more than half of Americans don't support Donald Trump's proposal to acquire Greenland.
NUUK, Greenland — The people of Greenland, the Inuit, the people of the farthest north, are famously quiet. At church, you can barely hear them when they sing. In conversation, you have to lean in. This doesn’t mean they are passive. They eat polar bears.
Sales banner Be For Films has boarded 'The Incredible Snow Woman,' a Greenland-set movie starring Blanche Gardin, ahead of the Berlin Film Festival.