Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented in the Supreme Court’s latest marriage ruling—and warned that same-sex marriage will be next on the chopping block.

The former president made the comments at a rally in Wisconsin.

The Republican presidential candidate made the suggestion while saying he wants to outright ban birthright citizenship.

Undoing the Fourteenth Amendment is not a joke.

A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

The census is best known for determining how we the people are represented. But it also quietly defends our democracy from deeper problems.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.

The president's slurs and his administration's policies are an attack on U.S. democracy itself—all in a desperate bid to cling to power.

The Supreme Court ruled Trump officials needed a better reason to tinker with the census; Democracy watchdogs aren't waiting for them to find one.

A new book traces the struggle over democracy, rights, race, and gender in Puerto Rico.

What does nationalism mean in a contested state?

A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.

Critics will say it's all about politics. Critics will be right.

A guide to celebrity asylums, defections, and passport swaps