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Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Fate of the Day: The War for ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

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