Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

The originalist argument in favor of birthright citizenship is that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” was meant to invoke only a small set of exceptions found in traditional British common law.

The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will ...

Nativists extol Calvin Coolidge for closing the golden door. But he never broadly disparaged immigrants and often praised diversity.

Connie Francis, 87. The wholesome pop star’s 1950s and ’60s hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — the ...

Interest in socialism is as much due to the education that debt paid for as it is to the economic conditions that made it ...

In 2024, Toronto swimmer Summer McIntosh set another world record at the short-course swimming championships, winning gold in the women's 400-metre medley, finishing in four minutes, 15.48 seconds, ...

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's ...

While only a small number of us live to be 100, everyone’s birthday has a centenary date. For historians who seem mostly to ...