Global North Institute Staff

The United States is a nation of immigrants. The arrival of new people from abroad has helped to forge the nation’s identity and spur economic growth. Yet controlling the pace of immigration and understanding who is arriving in the U.S. has remained a recurrent theme throughout American history. After a clampdown on unrestricted immigration in the 1920s, the U.S. staunched the flow of immigrants for decades, slowly creating a new regime of mass immigration since the 1960s. The current wave...

District voting offers an alternative to a national popular vote compact that complies with the Constitution and might benefit both parties.

Every state in the US must be a republic under the Constitution's Republican Governance Clause. But what does that really mean?