The Department of Homeland Security is set to overhaul the naturalization civics requirement. Prepare yourself for new test ...

Citizenship is more than a legal status or a collection of rights—it is a profound connection to a nation, its history and its future. To be a citizen means to ...

First, very few of the students I met, of any age, could pass the new citizenship test. Second, very few of the schools I ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 18, the League of Women Voters (LWV) and five state and local Leagues (the League) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the U.S.

Supporters need to follow Frederick Douglass' example — and make a case for conceiving of citizenship more broadly.

A group of new U.S. citizens, at right, observe the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony on June 27, 2025, at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tampa Field Office.

When it comes to registering voters, history has shown us one thing again and again: Government alone is not enough.

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

A common tactic among comedians is the person-on-the-street interview, often carried out on Florida beaches during spring break. Last spring, on Jesse Watters’ Fox News Channel show, beachgoers were ...

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