Who’s in Charge?

It’s easy to interpret the disorder of our COVID-19 response through the lens of unpreparedness or partisanship. But that misses the complex legal structure of emergency governance.

Before America Burned

James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the modern conservative movement. 

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment captures the idea that no people born in the United States should be forced to live in the shadows.

The Anti-Immigration Bible

Jeff Sessions is fond of citing the Bible to support the persecution of immigrants, in stark contrast to a long tradition of biblical interpretation.

Trumpism Before Trump

We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.

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