If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ridiculed, education crippled, and hatred valorized, take a look at ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. The ruling is in ...

A Gallup poll shows a substantial jump in the share of Americans who view immigration as positive for the U.S. since ...

In the United States, “bottom up” direct democracy—also known as ballot initiatives—emerged during the Populist and Progressive movements as a response to political corruption and corporate power.

The United States, Donald Trump says, “is the only country in the world” that grants citizenship to babies born within its borders. He’s wrong, of course.

Sounds innocent enough, right? But this is the infamous order declaring that birthright citizenship does not extend to children of parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily.

About 10,000 babies are born in the U.S. every day. Investigating the parents' citizenship would require a sizable bureaucracy at taxpayer expense.

Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States Rajani LaRocca, illus. by Huy Voun Lee. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-3165-7175-3 “Some of us are born American.

The case then went to the SCOTUS – Supreme Court of the United States. Last week, the Supreme Court heard the first round of arguments on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

Anyone born in the United States is considered a citizen at birth, which derives from the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment that was added to the US Constitution in 1868.

The 22 states that are also challenging Trump's birthright order contend that a Supreme Court decision barring nationwide injunctions would cause chaos until each case is ultimately resolved ...

The 14th Amendment's citizenship clause was not without controversy from the outset. Early legal challenges, such as United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), tested its boundaries. In this case, the ...