What is the content of American identity? From the Revolution onward, America has had a story of great unifying force: the ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, encoded in the Constitution, and embodied in amendments that made citizenship of the United States something transcendent and vital. Because our country...
0 Comments | Posted August 4, 2010 | 12:28 PM
In this silly season, anti-immigrant right-wingers are calling for an end to birthright citizenship. And leading Senate Republicans are taking them seriously.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution says that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. The nativism behind the push to...
0 Comments | Posted July 27, 2010 | 1:49 PM
I'm an Elena Kagan fan and a baseball fanatic. So one of the intriguing moments in Kagan's Senate testimony was when she addressed Chief Justice Roberts' famous "balls and strikes" analogy. Roberts had said at his own Supreme Court confirmation that the role of a judge, like that...
0 Comments | Posted May 9, 2005 | 1:15 PM
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you’ll win. That if you start...
109 Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 11:55 AM