Paul A. Kramer

America has always discriminated in the name of national security. It’s just gotten better at pretending it’s not.

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.

After a Rio Grande flood shifted a 437-acre strip of land from Mexico to Texas, the area was the site of a long border dispute.

The U.S. just can't seem to let go of its naval base on Cuba.

Debating torture and counterinsurgency—a century ago.