“To get to Sunny Isles Beach, we will soon need a Russian visa,” a Hispanic taxi driver tells me. Sunny is the suburb of Miami with the largest Russian-speaking population in Florida (about ten percent according to the latest census). In local media, he is sometimes called "little ...

As President Barack Obama himself admitted, the United States is the only developed country in the world that does not have paid maternity leave. In the US, no one really gives anybody a paid decree - the state only guarantees "vacation at its own expense" for twelve weeks. A bit better…

In California, US law enforcement raids aimed at uncovering an illegal network helping pregnant women from other countries travel to the United States for childbirth. Under US law, a child born in the country is eligible for US citizenship. Therefore, foreign women wishing to ...