Bloodright Citizenship (Citizenship by Descent): Who Decides?

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The Conditions on a US Aircraft Carrier Sound Concerning

The Dance Floor Saved Madonna. Then She Made It Big Enough for Everyone

Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children's Expulsions, Can Go Forward

C P Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ lecture provoked a savage response from fellow critic F R Leavis. What was at the heart of it all?

Virginia Man Argues His 'FTP&ATF' License Plate Is Free Speech. The Supreme Court Might Hear His Case.

Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute

Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938

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Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward

First Legal Challenges to Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

NH Federal Court Provisionally Certifies Class Of Pregnant ISIS Brides Seeking Birthright Citizenship For Their Children

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

Author Correction: Structural mechanism of cGAS inhibition by the nucleosome

Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion

A Federal Judge Slams Trump's IRS Lawsuit As a Pretext for Delivering a Phony 'Settlement'

Morocco’s Bet on Targeted AI

Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden’s early poetry, while striking, was neither particularly coherent nor good

The Mystery Cult Of Dionysus