NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses recent Supreme Court decisions and what they reveal about the justices' views on executive ...

An Australian native and longtime Louisiana resident who was indicted for noncitizen voting said she didn’t know she was ...

In October 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) made changes to the civics exam.

If the 1.5 million or so Chinese people with birthright citizenship in the U.S. can vote at 18, will America praise the judges who allowed it? If Martians gave birth in the U.S., wouldn’t those ...

I was disappointed to see the recent letter published in the newspaper advancing claims about birthright citizenship that are, at best, unsubstantiated and, at worst, misleading. Opinion pages are ...

The United States immigration system needs a clear, accessible earned pathway to citizenship in order to address the economic and social challenges of its undocumented population. The solution should ...

Why are we so upset about birthright citizenship? The United States historically has applied the principle. When French refugees from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) arrived in America, their children born ...

Thomas Paine wrote his pamphlet, “Common Sense,” in 1776 to advocate for American independence. Fast forward to today, and we need to apply common sense to the birthright citizenship quandary our ...

Regarding the question of whether the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship as heard through recent oral arguments to the Supreme Court, I contend it does not. It ...

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