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Is the AfD Too Extreme for Democracy?

May 13, 2025

A photo of AfD supporters waving German flags at a rally ahead of the 2024 election.

The Terrible Optics of ICE Enforcement Are Fueling a Trump Immigration Backlash

May 12, 2025

The Real Motive Behind the Real ID–Deadline Charade

Juliette Kayyem

May 7, 2025

A news photo from an airport showing Real ID signs for travelers

Airport Detentions Have Travelers ‘Freaked Out’

May 5, 2025

A traveler shows a police officer something on his phone while standing in line at an airport

The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

An illustration that includes photos of Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, alongside a photo of the steps of the Supreme Court.

Trump Is Vulnerable on Immigration

April 23, 2025

A photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen speaking to reporters in San Salvador

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What the Democratic Infighting Reveals

John Hendrickson

April 22, 2025

Democratic House members

Migrants Are Heading South

April 19, 2025

A photograph of migrants walking with suitcases

We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like

April 16, 2025

Collage of a photo of Donald Trump and images evoking border security

They Never Thought Trump Would Have Them Deported

Caitlin Dickerson

April 15, 2025

Illustration of police seen through window

Russia’s Repression Goes South

March 31, 2025

An image of protesters in front of the Georgian Parliament throwing fireworks

The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights

March 28, 2025

Photograph of Tom Cartwright

Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

March 22, 2025

Illustration of a couple running towards the steps of an airplane while dollar bills fall from their briefcase

Stephen Miller Has a Plan

Nick Miroff and Jonathan Lemire

March 19, 2025

A black-and-white photo of Stephen Miller, with his hand in the foreground

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What John Roberts’s Rebuke of Trump Left Out

David A. Graham

March 18, 2025

Chief Justice John Roberts frowns slightly while he wears his robes

What the Border-Hawk Catholics Get Wrong

March 18, 2025

A photo of Pope Francis superimposed on Catholic art

‘What About Six Years of Friendship and Fighting Together?’

March 17, 2025

A mom ties her daughter's hair into a ponytail while a father holds their son.

There Was a Second Name on Rubio’s Target List

March 13, 2025

Hundreds turn out outside a New York court to protest the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder and recent Columbia graduate who played a role in pro-Palestinian protests at the university.

ICE Isn’t Delivering the Mass Deportation Trump Wants

March 11, 2025

Photo of two agents wearing vests labeled “POLICE” entering an apartment building

Germany’s Anti-Extremist Firewall Is Collapsing

February 21, 2025

Campaign sign on a pole in a wooded area

New York Belongs to Trump Now

Xochitl Gonzalez

February 19, 2025

A black-and-white photo of Eric Adams being questioned by the press.

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The Public Humiliation of Eric Adams

David A. Graham

February 14, 2025

Tom Homan looks at Eric Adams while on "Fox & Friends."

Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only

February 12, 2025

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The ‘Right Way’ to Immigrate Just Went Wrong

Gisela Salim-Peyer

January 31, 2025

Migrants from Venezuela, who had their asylum appointments with U.S. officials cancelled hours after President Donald Trump's inauguration, look out at the closed border with the U.S. from a government-run shelter in Juarez, Mexico, on January 21.

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee

David W. Blight

January 27, 2025

A white and red striped crib

The Border Got Quieter, So Trump Had to Act

Juliette Kayyem

January 26, 2025

Border Patrol agents prepare to transport migrants.

The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution

January 22, 2025

Illustration of a hand holding up two American flags in front of a U.S. passport and the U.S. Constitution

Emergency Powers Are About to Be Tested

Elizabeth Goitein

January 18, 2025

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A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

January 15, 2025

A photo-illustration of a cut-out black-and-white photo of a young woman holding a camera, framed with rectangular 3-D lines in a collage style on a mustard-yellow background.

What the H-1B Visa Fight Is Really About

January 11, 2025

The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship

January 7, 2025

Newborn babies in a hospital, but they're behind a wire fence

How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration

Cecilia Muñoz and Frank Sharry

December 16, 2024

Large black-and-white photos of Harris and Biden set against a border wall so that they seem to be looking down at people walking alongside it.

Work In Progress

Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long

December 10, 2024

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A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution

December 9, 2024

Mexican farmworkers register to work under the Bracero program

Drought Is an Immigration Issue

November 18, 2024

An air interdiction helicopter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection flies past a drought-stricken pond by the U.S.-Mexico border

Get Ready for Higher Food Prices

November 15, 2024

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