President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. The constitutional right, fought for by various oppressed groups, is now being ...

Seacoast letter writers decry GOP bill to rescind school mandate to provide period products; defend and deplore Trump's early actions.

THE enlightened and intelligent debates that eventually led to the decision of the Philippine Senate to abrogate the Philippines-United States military bases agreement in September 1991 were totally ...

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

That was the verdict of the judge — and he’ll be the first of many — on President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...

Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship. That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or accepting citizenship ...

UVA legal expert Amanda Frost explains the president’s executive order, the constitutional amendment he seeks to overturn and ...