NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Who is born a US citizen?

  • Written by Carol Nackenoff, Richter Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Some people are U.S. citizens at birth, like this baby born in California.Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com

A recent court ruling about faraway American Samoa may have profound implications for a conflict that’s been going on for nearly 200 years: who gets to be an American citizen.

Debates over who gets citizenship and what kind of citizenship...

Read more: Who is born a US citizen?

More Articles ...

  1. An old debate over religion in school is opening up again
  2. Meet the narwhal, 'unicorn of the sea'
  3. Why fitness trackers may not give you all the 'credit' you hoped for
  4. 3 quotes that defined the first Democratic debate of 2020
  5. Earthquake forecast for Puerto Rico: Dozens more large aftershocks are likely
  6. Worrying about being drafted doesn't mean you're disloyal – it's an old American tradition
  7. Parental leave laws are failing single parents
  8. How Prohibition changed the way Americans drink, 100 years ago
  9. 'Uncut Gems' celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District, a neighborhood that's a window into the past
  10. Think twice before shouting your virtues online – moral grandstanding is toxic
  11. Being copycats might be key to being human
  12. Microwaving sewage waste may make it safe to use as fertilizer on crops
  13. Heading into Iowa: Where do the Democratic candidates stand on health care coverage?
  14. Why the US-Iran conflict isn’t driving oil prices higher – and why it probably should
  15. Can the Constitution stop the government from lying to the public?
  16. The secret origins of presidential polling
  17. What US election officials could learn from Australia about boosting voter turnout
  18. High-priced specialty drugs: Exposing the flaws in the system
  19. Pope ends a secrecy rule for Catholic sexual abuse cases, but for victims many barriers to justice remain
  20. Restricting trade in endangered species can backfire, triggering market booms
  21. Why hip-hop belongs in today's classrooms
  22. Brexit could spell the end of globalization, and the global prosperity that came with it
  23. Cyberspace is the next front in Iran-US conflict – and private companies may bear the brunt
  24. Why are there seven days in a week?
  25. Weinstein jurors must differentiate between consent and compliance – which research shows isn't easy
  26. Large turnouts for Soleimani’s funeral in Iran carry powerful collective emotions – just as Americans saw during the colonial era
  27. Killing of Soleimani evokes dark history of political assassinations in the formative days of Shiite Islam
  28. Why some public universities get to keep their donors secret
  29. The made-up crisis behind the state takeover of Houston's public schools
  30. We're living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned
  31. Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to norovirus, the winter vomiting virus
  32. Why we are hard-wired to worry, and what we can do to calm down
  33. 3D printing of body parts is coming fast – but regulations are not ready
  34. Matching Vietnamese brides with Chinese men, marriage brokers find good business – and sometimes love
  35. Rotting feral pig carcasses teach scientists what happens when tons of animals die all at once, as in Australia's bushfires
  36. Trump, like Obama, tests the limits of presidential war powers
  37. The US-Iran conflict and the consequences of international law-breaking
  38. School closures can hit rural communities hard
  39. What Trump's tweet threatening Iran's cultural sites could mean for Shiite Muslims
  40. Tweets about cannabis' health benefits are full of mistruths
  41. How countries in conflict, like Iran and the US, still talk to each other
  42. Children of color already make up the majority of kids in many US states
  43. Should college funding be tied to how many students graduate?
  44. Telecommuters create positive change – so why aren't employers more flexible about people working from home?
  45. Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved
  46. Trump asks NATO allies for help with Iran after years of bashing the alliance
  47. What happens when community college is made free
  48. For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun
  49. Moving Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado won't be good for public lands
  50. What did the Romans do in the year 0? A fake theologian explains