Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics

David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed,” published in 1989, describes today’s United States with stunning prescience.

Britain’s Christmas Lament: Meat Shortages and Delivery Delays

Military personnel are driving transport trucks. Pig farmers may start culling their stock. Even the government says shortages will affect Christmas, as Britons brace for a challenging winter.

Opinion | What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers

This is about morals. It’s also about the law.

Opinion | What’s a Little Disagreement Among Factions?

Everything is going just the way Biden dreamed it up. 

Vietnamese Americans, Once Displaced Themselves, Mobilize to Help Afghans

For many who made it to the United States, watching the chaotic exit from Afghanistan evoked memories of their own harrowing experiences.

Perilous, Roadless Jungle Becomes a Path of Desperate Hope

The recent surge at the Mexican border is likely to grow as more migrants, mostly Haitian, risk everything negotiating the notorious Darién Gap on their way to the United States.

He Sees Migrants as ‘Modern Slaves,’ and Has Devoted His Life to Helping Them

The Rev. Daniel Alliët, for whom Jesus was a “political revolutionary,” has made it his life’s mission to fight for the rights of undocumented migrants, to the chagrin of some other clergy members.

Biden Campaigned as the Anti-Trump. But a Clean Break Is Never Easy.

When it comes to policy, the president is finding that it is not always easy to draw a clear line separating himself from his predecessor.

Biden Guidelines Direct ICE to Focus on Immigrants Who Pose Safety Threat

The new priorities, which also give agents broad case-by-case discretion, attempt to undo the broad immigration arrest policies of the Trump administration.

San Jose Apologizes for Decades of Discrimination Against Chinese

A resolution that the City Council approved unanimously this week also acknowledged the injustice of the destruction of the city’s Chinatowns.

Thousands of Haitians Are Being Allowed Into the U.S. But What Comes Next?

Members of a Haitian church in Philadelphia opened their hearts and pocketbooks to sponsor a family of immigrants. Then came another, and another.

Greyhound Agrees to Pay $2.2 Million Over Immigration Sweeps on Buses

The settlement will provide restitution to passengers who were detained, arrested or deported after immigration agents conducted warrantless searches on buses, Washington State’s attorney general said.

The U.K.’s Gas Crisis Is a Brexit Crisis, Too

Until now, the government has blamed Covid-related restrictions for a spate of shortages. But as virus restrictions ease and fuel runs short, the focus is shifting to Britain’s exit from the E.U.

Opinion | Biden Is Taking a Page Out of Trump’s Immigration Playbook

The president promised a “humane” immigration policy. Images of U.S. agents menacing Haitians at the border tell a different story.

Opinion | ‘I Want to Go to a Hospital or Clinic Where Everyone Is Vaccinated’

Vaccine mandates in hospitals and schools; Haitians and immigration policy; abortion and Republicans.

Britain’s Gas Crisis, Explained

A shortage of truck drivers has led to empty fuel pumps around the country, creating long lines at gas stations and panic buying.

Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People

The official announcement was made by Canada’s foreign minister on Monday evening, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.

Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People

The official announcement was made by Canada’s foreign minister on Monday evening, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly.

New York Pledges $27 Million to Help Undocumented Immigrants Hit by Ida

“I almost died,” said one Queens resident who forced her way out of a basement apartment. Now she is eligible for help.

Biden Administration Moves to Protect Undocumented Young Adults

A proposed rule could save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which a federal judge in Texas found unlawful in July.