The New York Times recently reported that the Trump administration is "considering a radical overhaul" of the refugee system in the U.S. that would, in the publication's estimation, "favor white ...

There is a great deal in our society that resembles the 1920s, such as our growing inequality and corruption. Our connection to this era is perhaps seen most clearly in Trump’s immigration policies, ...

100 years ago today, America committed its biggest immigration blunder when President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act. As we commemorate the anniversary, most of the conversation ...

If you lived in Indiana as late as 1990, you have met, spoken with or smiled at a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. After all, only a half-century earlier, 1 in 3 Protestant Hoosier men were members.

Feigenbaum, James J., Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella. "Immigration Restrictions and Natives’ Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s U.S. Quota Acts." Harvard Business ...

The closing of American borders to mass migration from Europe in the 1920s, one of the biggest immigration policy changes in the country’s history, didn’t raise wages for U.S.-born workers in the ...

If you lived in Indiana as late as 1990, you have met, spoken with or smiled at a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. After all, only a half-century earlier, 1 in 3 Protestant Hoosier men were members.