Expanding our understanding of how American society, culture and politics works helps us anticipate instability.

In his first year back in office, President Trump has completely shifted the U.S. approach to immigration, launching the most ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

President Donald Trump’s vow to wage the biggest domestic deportation program in American history – expelling a million people a year – is one of his signature goals. In its own words, US Customs and ...

ICE agents wait outside asylum hearings to arrest people. Subscribe to watch the full report. New York; Annandale, Virginia; Los Angeles; Atlanta — Mispelys Salazar clutches a stack of papers close to ...

Japanese Americans are seeing parallels between the government’s incarceration of their families during World War II and the current detention of Latinos. By Jill Cowan Jill Cowan grew up in the ...