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 today, ballot initiatives are popular with voters, used widely, and have the potential to transform policy. Yet only 26 states have laws allowing for some form of initiative, ...

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.

More specifically, the order contradicts the express language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause providing that “ [a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and ...

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.

How Trump’s birthright citizenship order was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States Trump's executive order denies citizenship to U.S.-born children unless one parent is a citizen or ...

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 amendment ...

The Trump administration seeks to challenge the constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. But the arguments are likely to focus on a different question.

The concept of birthright citizenship in the United States has long been a cornerstone of its legal and social fabric. However, recent attempts to challenge this principle, such as former President ...