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Donald Trump is back in the White House. His campaign claims—immigrants are stealing, murdering, and collecting public ...

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She’s like a person who is tightrope walking and the entire time has to create and keep her balance. Her entire belief is ...

A spate of destructive executive orders ...

On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy rose to address the banquet of the annual meeting of the American Society for ...

Trump’s inauguration ushers in uncertainty and terror for immigrants and advocacy groups as they brace for the massive immigration crackdown he has already ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

During his first administration, Donald Trump took steps to curtail H-1B immigration. He reiterated those sentiments again during his reelection campaign, but in December he walked back his criticism, ...

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe now to get a copy. “They let—I think the real number is fifteen, sixteen million people into our country,” Donald Trump told ...