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Michael Anton

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Citizenship Shouldn't Be a Birthright

Guaranteeing citizen status simply for being born here is a deliberate misreading of the Fourteenth Amendment.

by Michael Anton via Washington Post
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on July 18, 2018

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Ronald Ragan speaking at Republican National Convention.

Against Grievance Politics

Conservatism faces a populist shift, but traditional Ronald Reagan-era ideas of growth, limited government, and originalism remain the preferred path.

by Richard M. Reinsch II via Commentary on February 11, 2026

Birthright citizenship form, with infant footprints stamped in black ink, on fire.

The Plot Against Birthright Citizenship

The incoming Trump administration wants to take away citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Here’s how.

by Isabela Dias via Mother Jones on November 26, 2024

"Impeach Earl Warren" billboard by the John Birch Society.

Rise of the Far-Right Ultras

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on January 11, 2022

How the War on Terror Undermined American Democracy

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 5, 2021

Man holding poster at U.S. Capitol Riot

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.

by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2021

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