The prevailing question of the past year — which will likely prove to be the prevailing question of our generation — is this: What does it mean to be an American? Is America a transferable idea, or a people?
This debate reached the U.S. Supreme Court directly earlier this month, when the court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. The Trump administration argues that being born to a foreign trespasser or surrogate baby-carrier on U.S. soil does not make someone an American. The ACLU and its backers in the media argue that it does.
