The U.S. Air Force wants to build two commercial rocket landing pads at Johnston Atoll, which is a crucial breeding ground ...

Ambiguity over the island’s status was fueled by Supreme Court cases [PDF] that declared it an unincorporated territory with no clear path to statehood. In the wake of World War II and a global ...

Samoa and the Marianas each have 50,000 or so. The U.S. also has unincorporated territories, which are largely uninhabited, in the Pacific and Atlantic, including some of World War II fame such as ...

Bidwell, the most prominent of the Insular Cases, held that the Uniformity Clause of the U.S. Constitution was not “applicable” in so-called “unincorporated” territories. The Uniformity ...