Christine Flowers

There have been some interesting discussions about birthright citizenship, and Trump's election a few weeks ago has just intensified the interest in the topic. A number of people who are angry at the chaos at the border have jumped right over the normal processes and procedures which would guarantee that illegal border crossings are limited, and hit right at one of the core principles of our nation, one embedded in the Fourteenth Amendment: if you are born here, regardless of the status of your parents, you are a U.S. citizen. The actual wording of the amendment is as follows:

Thanksgiving was never an important holiday for me. Gathering the family from near and far for a celebratory meal wasn’t unusual; our family was composed of Italians and a small

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You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”?

Surrounded by strangers speaking strange languages, I am able to look at my native land with an affection that is often hard to recapture when home.

You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?”

A makeshift Thanksgiving during a year abroad made the writer appreciate voices from home and the fragility of life.

You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?” I've been hearing that on a loop in my inner ear over the past two weeks since Donald Trump pulled off what some have called a surprise landslide but which, after the votes were counted, seems to be more of an anti-Kamala “boy are they blue” wave.

You know the old song lyrics “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am?”

I doubt that America has embraced Trump, who received a lower popular vote percentage than almost every prior winner. Still, America couldn’t stomach the idea of a Harris presidency.