Dara Lind

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia are boating across the Mediterranean in an attempt to enter the EU.

A Turkish journalist got convicted this week for insulting the Prime Minister on Twitter. He claims it was a typo. But is the tweet just an excuse for the govenment to harass him?

A new report says that states that let unauthorized immigrants get drivers’ licenses might be improving public safety and promoting assimilation.

91 percent of immigrants who take the US citizenship test can pass it. Actual citizens don’t do nearly as well.

The head of the House Judiciary Committee is raging about Obama’s new plan to cut prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders. Too bad the pardon power is explicitly given to the president in the Constitution.

A new study shows that sons of incarcerated fathers are less likely to have the behavioral skills they need for preschool — starting a vicious cycle between school discipline and prison.

The Obama administration has been extremely stingy in granting pardons or relief to prisoners. That’s about to change entirely.

You would have been embarrassed to read these out loud in high school. But they make the plays so much better.