On Trump’s first day back in office last year, he signed an executive order that would end birthright citizenship, long seen ...

New limits reflect sloppy reasoning and a desire for collective punishment.

For one thing, Hecox has changed her mind about bringing the case—she has said that she no longer wants to play sports at B.S.U., and that the Supreme Court should consider the matter moot. The ...

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all. By Mark Lilla Mark ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has never had much use for legal scholarship, but a new article about birthright citizenship may well cause him to change his mind. An exhaustive study by two researchers ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments concerning the issuance of President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally ...

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Despite what some legal scholars are claiming, the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment does not extend citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are illegal aliens, or for ...

A growing subset of ultra-wealthy founders is treating family size as a strategic variable, not a private detail. Chinese gaming magnate Xu Bo and Telegram founder Pavel Durov are among the most ...

In 1830, the US Supreme Court determined that despite having been born in New York City in the 1770s, Anglican Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia was not a US citizen and therefore not eligible to ...

A new study further undermines revisionist claims about birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, noting a dog that did not bark. One of President Trump's first actions in his second term ...