"Many politicians and some students have lacked the courage to say what one, like myself, of foreign descent should frankly assert and defend — that this is, and must remain, an essentially and ...

Most H1-B visa holders are of Indian and Asian origin; this has created a large backlog of H-1B holders with little prospect of citizenship due to the current structure of our immigration system, ...

That the mind lives in the brain, the brain lives in the body and the body lives in a community is the key to understanding mental health in all cultural contexts. Ethan Watters makes several ...

Does anyone doubt that July is really a monthlong celebration of American culture and nationhood? The Fourth of July sets the theme, of course, and so did the recent All-Star game in Arlington, Texas.

The body is the temple of the spirit. Clothes make the man. A picture is worth a thousand words. Nowadays these old axioms might elicit a groan. Not so, however, in the American Gilded Age, when each ...

Setting down my heavy, chock-full plate, I took off my jacket and sat down next to Chen, my friend from China. As usual, she was enjoying a wok dish of fried noodles with chicken and vegetables. I ...

Large crowds of protestors have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv over the past week to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to overhaul Israel's judicial system. Trade unions, along with ...

One of the unintended consequences of the Tsarnayev brothers’ decision to strike at the Boston Marathon with homemade explosive devices may be its impact on the national debate on immigration. Already ...

I once wrote a story about an advertising campaign aimed at Latino teenagers. The idea, ginned up by the marketing geniuses behind “Got Milk,” was to entice this fast-growing group of consumers to ...

On Dec. 26, 1941, just 19 days after Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill addressed Congress and famously raised the following question about the enemy, "What kind of people do they think we are?" The more ...