Tom Deignan, a regular Commonweal contributor, has written about books for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Catholic Reporter. He is working on a book about immigration.
Democrats can’t rely on changing demographics to guarantee majorities; American immigration history proves there is much more at play than race or ethnicity.
Why did so many descendants of Ellis Island immigrants vote for a president whose speech echoes 1920s eugenicists? A new book traces the rise of ‘scientific’ racism.
