The first time I heard someone called an “alien” in a legal context was over breakfast with a roommate in law school. After college, she’d spent a year playing basketball in France. Why leave such a ...

When we talk about aliens these days, we’re almost always talking about one of two groups: extraterrestrials or immigrants. It’s confusing and racist and it needs to stop. The word should exclusively ...

She’s not the only one. Across the country, politicians and immigration activists are taking aim at the rhetoric etched into official documents. By Mihir Zaveri Susan Lontine, a Democratic state ...