Mar 18th, 2010 · Puerto Rico is requiring all native-born citizens to get new birth certificates to prevent fraudulent applications for U.S. passports and social programs. Many Puerto Ricans are upset and confused by this new initiative, however.
Mar 17th, 2010 · Privacy advocates are urging the Obama administration to appoint nominees to a privacy and civil liberties board that has been defunct for more than two years. Congress wants to revive the board as an independent body to protect U.S. citizens against potential transgressions tied to counterterrorism activities.
Mar 15th, 2010 · Mexican and U.S. leaders have vowed to track down the gunmen who killed three people, including two U.S. citizens, with ties to the U.S. Consulate in the border town of Juarez. Mexican authorities say they believe the killings are linked to the country's raging drug war.
Mar 10th, 2010 · Since the U.S. invasion, 4 million Iraqis have had to leave their homes. An additional 2 million have left the country entirely, and many are still outside its borders. NPR's Deborah Amos tells the story of these displaced Iraqi citizens in her new book, Eclipse of the Sunnis.
Mar 5th, 2010 · We have to say, we're not the least bit surprised: The NPR crowd is famously a sober, serious-minded bunch of upstanding citizens. So it was practically a foregone conclusion that the winner in our audience-driven Oscar-alternative movie awards would be ...
Mar 3rd, 2010 · There's been much talk among anti-Obama, Tea Party activists of a legal concept called nullification. The belief is that if the citizens of a state decide they don't like a federal law passed, the 10th Amendment gives them the power to simply ignore it. The idea has caught fire among some Texans.
Feb 23rd, 2010 · The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that pits an individual's right to free speech and association against a federal law aimed at combating terrorism. At issue is part of the Patriot Act which makes it a crime for an American citizen to engage in peaceful lawful activity on behalf of any group designated as a terrorist organization.
Feb 23rd, 2010 · In Russia, protests are generally small and often shut down by police. But recently, police have allowed a handful of anti-government demonstrations to go on. The prime minister says getting feedback from citizens (like 72-year-old Leokadya Maximova) is a good thing.