And Trump won’t like what they had to say. The president is correct on one point: The Fourteenth Amendment’s framers intended ...

I stood in Monrovia, Liberia—the city named after a U.S. slaveholder president—and announced my candidacy for the highest ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

Yet, Congress passed the 1790 Naturalization Act to limit citizenship to white persons and used military force to deport African Americans to Liberia. That was not immigration. It was colonization.

European immigrants — Italians, Irish, Germans, Jews and, later, Eastern and Southern Europeans — were broadly understood to fall under the protections of the original 1790 Naturalization Act ...

The Alien Friends Act and the Sedition Act both expired in 1800, and Congress repealed the Naturalization Act in 1802. The Alien Enemies Act (AEA) though is still the law of the land.

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

A singular nation that cannot and will not be divided, and a promise that everyone within that indivisible nation will be granted conditionless liberty and justice. That’s the kind of promise we want ...