| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Among the stated priorities of the incoming Trump Administration is an effort to restrict birthright citizenship, which has long been guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. An executive order aiming to strip the citizenship of children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants would provoke a test case—but as Rachel Rosenbloom writes in Made by History, this is not the first time someone has tried to restrict birthright citizenship. In the face of such challenges, including the 1898 Supreme Court case Wong Kim Ark, the courts have held that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship in all but a handful of very narrow circumstances. Overturning such a long-settled principle would have enormous consequences, if the court agrees with President Trump. | |
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| | | |  | The Panama Canal Could Help Unify Trump's Fractious Movement | In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue. |
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|  | How Land Reshuffling Made the American West's Racial Divide | Power in society is tightly linked with the racialized ownership of land, and the privileges that ownership confers, writes Michael Albertus. |
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|  | The Key to Success for Musk, Ramaswamy, and DOGE | Theodore Roosevelt started a version of DOGE too, but it failed to achieve much after Congress rejected its recommendations. |
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|  | Why We Need to Remember the Physical Effects of Polio | A doctor and professor explains how we have forgotten the contagious and painful symptoms of Polio. |
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|  | How Dinosaurs Changed American Identity | The discovery of fossils led 19th century Americans to rethink their place in the world. |
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| | This week in 1989: Donald Trump |  | The Jan. 16, 1989, cover of TIME |
| Norman Parkinson |
| "He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President…'I have an absolute strategy, but it's an innate strategy and not definable,' he says. 'When you start studying yourself too deeply, you start seeing things that maybe you don't want to see. And if there's a rhyme and reason, people can figure you out, and once they can figure you out, you're in big trouble.'" |
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| | This week in 1998: Jerry Seinfeld |  | The Jan. 12, 1998, cover of TIME |
| Firooz Zahedi |
| "Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug…'I just know from being onstage for years and years and years, there's one moment where you have to feel the audience is still having a great time, and if you get off right there, they walk out of the theater excited. And yet, if you wait a little bit longer and try to give them more for their money, they walk out feeling not as good. If I get off now I have a chance at a standing ovation. That's what you go for.'" |
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| This week in 2014: Seth Meyers |  | The Jan. 13, 2014 cover of TIME |
| Marco Grob |
| "You'll have to excuse the future Late Night host for not decorating: he still has another NBC office upstairs, at Saturday Night Live, where he's been since 2001. (Meyers' last SNL episode won't be before the beginning of February, he guesses.) So he commutes, by elevator. This December morning, he's going to take comedy pitches from his still incomplete Late Night writing staff. 'Then I'll go upstairs and start writing on something,' he says. 'Then I'll pop down here and look at the next pass of those bits. Then I'll spend the night sleeping upstairs. Then I'll wake up and come down here. It's like having two families. I feel like Ray Liotta at the end of Goodfellas, with the helicopter following me.'" |
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