Nobody, to my knowledge, has ever accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a nationalist. But if her recently surfaced comments about Somalia are any indication, she is, in fact, an ardent one — just not for ...

Larry Mantle talks with immigration scholar Tamar Jacoby about her new book Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to Be American. It’s a series of thought-provoking essays ...

As of June, America had more than 50 million immigrants. More than 15 percent of the country’s population was born elsewhere.

The notion of America as a uniformly Christian nation (“Christian US concept misreads Founders, historians say,” Page A8, Feb. 18) flies in the face of the longstanding view of the United States as a ...

Then and now / Herbert J. Gansthe -- American kaleidoscope, then and now / Stephan Thernstrom -- Rediscovering the melting pot : still going strong / Nathan Glazer -- Assimilation today: is one ...

We’ve lost something! Recall the de facto American motto, “E Pluribus Unum,” translated from Latin as “one from many.” It conveys the ideal of America developing like a “melting pot.” That is to say, ...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's book transformed how ethnicity was viewed in America. In 1963, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and sociologist Nathan Glazer published their book, "Beyond the Melting Pot," which ...

America isn't one unified whole but rather a mosaic of lived experiences. Researchers identify Ten Americas, each defined by a complex web of race, geography, and income, where life expectancy, a ...

American music is the sound of the boiling of the great melting pot. New sounds that weren’t imported from other countries appeared in the first hundred years after decades of brewing the varied ...

Even some of the most brilliant and influential words ever written in the U.S. Constitution didn't create America's greatness. Americans did.