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Assimilation

A group of immigrants walk by the American flag | Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Radek Procyk | Dreamstime.com | Midjourney

Immigration

Independence Day Reminds Us You Can Be American by Choice

Despite our problems, the U.S. offers the sort of freedom, liberty, and opportunity that is anathema to many places around the world.

Billy Binion | 7.4.2025 6:30 AM

A beer cavern | Photo: Aaron Deininger/Brewing Heritage Trail

Travel

Cincinnati's Beer-Loving Germans Endured Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Alcohol Resistance

The city's German immigrant experience suggests that immediate assimilation isn't necessary to eventual assimilation.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.3.2025 6:00 AM

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Immigration

Michael Brendan Dougherty: How Will Immigrants Reshape America?

National Review's Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the differences between conservatives and libertarians on the issue of immigration.

Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe | 10.10.2024 1:00 PM

Members of the NYPD Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, a band for Irish-American civil servants, march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade along 5th Avenue. | Ron Adar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire

Immigration

'Heritage Americans' Were Unassimilated Immigrants Once Too

Ellis Island arrivals maintained close ties to the Old World for generations. Nativists want us to forget that.

Matthew Petti | 7.8.2024 12:45 PM

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Movies

Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Is a Dazzling Bit of Americana

It’s a moving story about immigration and assimilation, and one of the best movies of the year.

Peter Suderman | 12.10.2021 8:29 AM

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Immigration

Indian Immigrants Are Saving Canadian Hockey

How the Punjabi diaspora rescued Canada's national sport

Shikha Dalmia | 1.5.2020 7:00 AM

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Donald Trump

Workplace Immigration Raids Prove America Is Still Land of Opportunity

ICE has already released 300 of 680 detainees, some on "humanitarian grounds."

Nick Gillespie | 8.9.2019 12:10 PM

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Economic Nationalism

Conservative Nationalists, Not Immigrants, Are Having Trouble Assimilating in America

Their orgy of statism is un-American.

Shikha Dalmia | 7.26.2019 10:30 AM

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Immigration

Indian Americans: America's Shithole Success Story

Countries of origin are no measure of the quality of immigrants.

Shikha Dalmia | 1.12.2018 8:30 PM

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