Guess what these developments have in common? • Immigration is quickly becoming the number-one issue of the 2006 Congressional campaign. • CAFTA, an innocuous trade agreement with five Central ...

Nativism and xenophobia surge in times of economic anxiety or cultural unease, and though the targets may change, the arguments against all of them tend to be all too familiar: They steal jobs. They ...

A tie clip that reads "Hongkonger" is worn by a protester outside the High Court during a gathering in support of activist Edward Leung, in Hong Kong on October 9, 2019. A tie clip that reads ...

Refer often enough, as politicians and editorialists do, to "the Judaeo-Christian tradition" and any Hindus, Buddhists, animists, Confucianists, Moslems, or Zoroastrians who happen to be in the ...

CHICAGO — A political science professor recently co-wrote a book addressing nativism in the United States and people’s need for belonging. Author Clifford Young joined WGN News on Saturday morning to ...

Historically, economic hardship and high unemployment tend to bring out anti-immigration sentiment. This can mean economic protectionism as well as cultural nativism--an attempt to preserve historical ...

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned of a brewing "systemic crisis" fueled by the rise of populist and anti-establishment politics around world, saying the U.S. needs to rely on "old ...

Editor’s note: Jim Schutze is taking some well-earned time off, so we’re digging into the archives to bring you some of his hits. This one, from August 2013 is about Farmers Branch’s ultimately failed ...

Here’s a question for the proud Americans demanding that the unaccompanied foreign children showing up at our borders be deported: Suppose that one of these “illegal” minors was your neighbor, living ...

There may be new things under the sun, but the recent rise of nativism in the United States is not one of them. The political forces attempting to reduce, revoke, or reject citizenship – and voting ...

In May 2016, Ben Shapiro—arguably the most influential conservative Jewish pundit in America—did something admirable. He admitted he was wrong. “I’ve spent most of my career arguing that anti-Semitism ...