Fixing Immigration, Again

Let's Find a Way to Rely on Authorized Workers after this Round of Reform

Congress appears on the verge of passing some version of a comprehensive immigration reform bill likely to include a provision legalizing millions of unauthorized immigrants for the first time since landmark immigration reform did the same in the mid 1980s.  Back then, backers of that legislative effort assured the nation that this was a one-time measure, but here we are again, much to the frustration of both immigration critics and immigration supporters (who don’t want immigrants to have to come without documentation, with all the hardship that entails). So, in …

Citizen Who Hits Arizona

Eric Liu’s One-Man Show Gets a Second Performance—and Continues to Evolve

Eric Liu is an author, educator, and civic entrepreneur. But in his one-man show, Citizen Who, he is also a storyteller, a violin player, and an actor who embodies the …

You Have a Better Pledge of Allegiance?

Zócalo Invites Naysayers To Offer Some Alternatives

Citizen Who, a one-man show written and performed by Eric Liu in a project for the Center For Social Cohesion, asks a lot of questions about what it means to …

Citizen Liu in Citizen Who

A Civic Entrepreneur Tackles Citizenship In a New Debut

The premiere performance of Citizen Who—a one-man show written and produced as part of author and civic entrepreneur Eric Liu’s fellowship at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State …

As American As …

When Do You Feel Most American?

Whether your American citizenship is a gift of birth and blood or a hard-earned right or a little bit of both, it can often be easy to pick and choose …

Citizen Who Goes To Class

My Conversation on Citizenship With High School Kids In Seattle

As I’ve been developing the Citizen Who project, I’ve struck up a wide range of conversations about the content of citizenship. A couple of months ago, I spoke at a …