The economic and social impacts of U.S. open immigration policy between the Civil War and World War I fall into four board categories. Jenks and Lauck contend that the social assimilation costs of open immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe outweigh any economic benefits of immigration....

The excessive violence that has spread across virtually all of Syria since the 2011 uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad has so far prevented a serious debate about feasible solutions. Most political factions fear that any talk of a compromise solution will undermine their own position...