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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

Illustration featuring photos of Donald Trump and images of immigrants working and getting arrested against the backdrop of a map showing the U.S.-Mexico border.

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

January 15, 2025

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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

Collage of images evoking Latino American politics

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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Trump Signals That He’s Serious About Mass Deportation

David A. Graham

November 11, 2024

Why Did Latinos Vote for Trump?

Xochitl Gonzalez

November 9, 2024

Baseball cap that reads "Latinos for Trump"

Americans Who Want Out

Bushra Seddique

November 5, 2024

A passport covered with "I Voted" stickers

Trump’s Followers Are Living in a Dark Fantasy

November 4, 2024

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Work In Progress

Blue States Gave Trump and Vance an Opening

Jerusalem Demsas

October 26, 2024

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Immigrants Are ‘Normal People Forced to Flee Their Countries’

November 2024 Issue

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Kamala Harris’s Muted Message on Mass Deportation

Ronald Brownstein

October 10, 2024

News photo of Vice President Kamala Harris visiting the southern border

The Most Dramatic Shift in U.S. Public Opinion

October 9, 2024

Entangled barbed wires, but they're actually arrows pointing in opposite directions

The Israeli Artist Who Offends Everyone

Judith Shulevitz

November 2024 Issue

painting of horrified woman wearing red with white polka dots, clutching living child in her arms while crouching next to tangled pile of dead children in pool of red blood with black background

Work In Progress

The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker

October 3, 2024

An illustration showing a $100 bill with barbed wire around it

The Candidates’ Policy Differences

September 28, 2024

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Immigrants Who Oppose Immigration

September 23, 2024

Screengrab from video of Pedro Antonio Aguero, overlapped over picture of border wall

What Was He Even Talking About?

David A. Graham

September 11, 2024

Trump Promises a ‘Bloody Story’

September 8, 2024

Donald Trump giving a speech

New York City’s Chaos Mayor

August 28, 2024

Black-and-white photo of Eric Adams speaking

How Not to Hand Populists a Weapon

Robert F. Worth

August 11, 2024

Rioters face off with police in front of a burning car in Sunderland, United Kingdom

This Is Not Your Typical Campus Novel

Nicolás Medina Mora

August 6, 2024

Setenta millas en el infierno

Caitlin Dickerson

September 2024 Issue

Foto de una fila abarrotada de personas con mochilas, varias de ellas con un niño sobre sus hombros, una mujer con la mano en la frente

Seventy Miles in Hell

Caitlin Dickerson

September 2024 Issue

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Donald Trump’s Theory of Everything

June 30, 2024

Donald Trump making a speech

Open the Door Wider for Refugees

June 20, 2024

Sudanese refugees

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Why Some Narratives Are So Easy to Fall For

June 11, 2024

A crumbled piece of white paper

What Will Become of American Civilization?

July/August 2024 Issue

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Work In Progress

Americans Are Thinking About Immigration All Wrong

May 30, 2024

The Statue of Liberty

The Brooklyn Sequel Asks the Most American of Questions About Immigration

May 23, 2024

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The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement

April 22, 2024

An illustration featuring a photo of Pat Buchanan and a photo of Donald Trump, backgrounded by a fence