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A draft policy from the Trump administration would make this card much harder to get. Stefano Spicca/Getty Images

How a proposed green card application policy change would disrupt lives by assuming legal immigrants are evading the law

Under a proposed policy – a departure from longtime practice that would cause significant disruption – green card applicants would no longer be able to apply for legal status from inside the US.
Dozens of immigrants from 18 nations take the oath to become U.S. citizens on Jan. 27, 2025, in Topeka, Kan. AP Photo/John Hanna

Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face widespread judicial pushback

Denaturalization risks becoming a tool of political control, creating a permanent vulnerability for more than 20 million naturalized Americans.
Newly arrived South Africans listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau deliver welcome statements in a hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century‑long effort to keep some English‑speaking nations white

Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
A statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns is unveiled in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

In December 2025, the statue of Barbara Rose Johns replaced that of Robert E. Lee as one of the two Virginians displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s why.
Tibetan fabric painting from the 17th or 18th century depicting a Bardo Cycle deity, representing transitional states between death and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhist belief. Dea/ V. Pirozzi/DeAgostini via Getty Images

‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ is actually not just about death

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and transformation as deeply intertwined.
Some immigration courts have allowed ICE attorneys to conceal their names during proceedings. Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images

Immigration courts hiding the names of ICE lawyers goes against centuries of precedent and legal ethics requiring transparency in courts

Hiding ICE attorneys’ names in immigration court proceedings violates a fundamental principle that has protected Americans for centuries: open courts.
A journalist runs out of the U.S. Supreme Court building carrying a ruling on the last day of the court’s term on June 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions

The Supreme Court just made it harder for judges to block presidential policies nationwide, but lawmakers hold the key to changing that.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a single federal judge should have the power to temporarily halt presidential policies across the entire country. Rudy Sulgan, The Image Bank/Getty Images

Birthright citizenship case at Supreme Court reveals deeper questions about judicial authority to halt unlawful policies

Arguments before the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship – awarded to those born in the US – actually focused on the power of federal judges to impose nationwide injunctions.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to limit judges’ power to issue what legal experts call ‘nationwide preliminary injunctions.’ Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

How a lone judge can block a Trump order nationwide – and why, from DACA to DOGE, this judicial check on presidents’ power is shaping how the government works

Do court-imposed nationwide injunctions, which stop policies for everyone across the country, give too much power to a single judge? Or do they protect important rights?
The Supreme Court is seen on March 17, 2025, one day before Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke of a president. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump’s defiance of a federal court order fuels a constitutional crisis − a legal scholar unpacks the complicated case

The current case focused on the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants raises concerns about whether the president will continue to respect the country’s legal system.

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