All U.S. population growth in 2022-2023 happened because of immigration, not births — the first time that’s occurred since 1850, a migration think tank reported Wednesday. That immigration growth has ...

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One reason Washington makes so much bad history is so many people here know so little history. This helps explain why "comprehensive" immigration reform is foundering: Too few of today's legislators ...

National Review’s Robert Costa has a fresh Mitch McConnell profile out that involves some interesting episodes where Costa just uncritically reprints McConnell saying bizarre things. Here he is on ...

Some time in roughly the next 15 to 25 years, immigration will become the primary driver of U.S. population growth, overtaking “natural” increases for the first time in nearly 200 years. That estimate ...

In the 1850s, Midwestern states used harsh laws to deny free African-Americans wealth and property. By Anna-Lisa Cox Ms. Cox is a fellow at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American ...

My hope is also that Americans do as they did in 1856 and reject a Know-Nothing presidential candidate again. A candidate for president of the United States calls for reduced immigration in part ...

Paul Ryan has emerged as an unexpected ally in the push for immigration reform. Appearing at a forum to push the bill forward on Monday Ryan provided a context for his interest in the issue. According ...

Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on ...