The United States needs a vibrant, thoughtful democratic-socialist presence. One that knows what it stands for, and one with a tragic sense of its own history.
A new federal rule redefines who is likely to become a “public charge,” and is therefore ineligible for citizenship. Few remember the rule’s anti-Catholic roots.
Hong Kongers are fighting China for their political survival. But the rest of the world, particularly the West, seems apathetic toward their precarity.