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Citizenship
December 9, 2024
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Expands His Deportation Threats to Include U.S. Citizens
Donald Trump’s frightening deportation plans won’t spare Americans either.
November 20, 2024
Matt Ford
Trump Is Gunning for Birthright Citizenship—and Testing the High Court
The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.
June 21, 2024
Talia Jane
Sotomayor Issues Dire Warning on Supreme Court Ruling on Noncitizens
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented in the Supreme Court’s latest marriage ruling—and warned that same-sex marriage will be next on the chopping block.
April 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Cognitive Decline? Trump Is Threatening to Deport U.S. Citizens Now
The former president made the comments at a rally in Wisconsin.
July 7, 2023
Prem Thakker
Vivek Ramaswamy Calls to Take Away Young People’s Right to Vote
The Republican presidential candidate made the suggestion while saying he wants to outright ban birthright citizenship.
May 30, 2023
Tori Otten
Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship on “Day One” if He Wins
Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment is not a joke.
September 19, 2022
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Gets a Chance to Revisit America’s Imperialist Past
A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.
October 19, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
A Broken Census Can Break Democracy
The census is best known for determining how we the people are represented. But it also quietly defends our democracy from deeper problems.
March 23, 2020
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Saul Elbein
The Un-American
Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.
July 30, 2019
Matt Ford
Trump’s Cynical War on American Citizenship
The president's slurs and his administration's policies are an attack on U.S. democracy itself—all in a desperate bid to cling to power.
June 27, 2019
Adam Eichen
Advocates Want Everyone Counted, No Matter the Fate of the Citizenship Question
The Supreme Court ruled Trump officials needed a better reason to tinker with the census; Democracy watchdogs aren't waiting for them to find one.
February 20, 2019
Andrew Lanham
An Activist’s Fight for Citizenship
A new book traces the struggle over democracy, rights, race, and gender in Puerto Rico.
September 5, 2018
Daniel Solomon
The Country Club
What does nationalism mean in a contested state?
August 2, 2018
Rafia Zakaria
If You Weren’t Here Before 1971, You’re Not a Citizen
A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.
June 12, 2018
Matt Ford
Can the Trump administration legally strip immigrants of citizenship?
September 6, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
It's Official: Obama Delaying Deportation Order
Critics will say it's all about politics. Critics will be right.
June 4, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Latest Obamacare Glitch and Why It's (Probably) No Big Deal
July 3, 2013
Julia Ioffe
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Kevin Mahnken
Exile Chic
A guide to celebrity asylums, defections, and passport swaps
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