In defense of that new public charge rule, Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli has offered his own version of the famous Emma Lazarus poem on the base of the ...

A Trump administration official has proposed an update to one of the most famous statues in the world. In an effort to justify a strict new immigration policy targeting poor families and individuals ...

There is something much deeper to “Thanksgivukkah” than sweet potato latkes. It is an opportunity to celebrate the blessing of our dual identity as Americans and Jews. In 1883, the ...

These oft-quoted lines were written by a young woman named Emma Lazarus in 1883, as part of a longer poem called “The New Colossus.” Inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, the verse has ...

Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, caused a stir Tuesday morning by misquoting “The New Colossus,” the poem that famously occupies the base of the ...

Editpr’s Note: A version of this piece was published by the Forward in 2019; we’re revisiting it on the occasion of Emma Lazarus’ birthday. Lazarus was born on July 22, 1849. This tale features ...

They are the best-known lines of poetry on a public monument in America: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Most ...

Ken Cuccinelli II, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, responded to reporters’ questions recently about Emma Lazarus’s famous poem “The New Colossus.” He wanted America to ...