bureaucracy

Young woman in plain room, dirt floor, holding birth certificate

There are about 600,000 children in Mexico who were born in the US but struggle to claim citizenship

Immigration

It’s not so simple as legal and illegal for children who want to claim their US birthright citizenship.

Informatics teacher Jevgeni Mihhailov inspects computers in an empty classroom in a school in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 7, 2012.

In Estonia, almost everything — from voting to updating medical records — can be done online

Technology
Couple looks at wedding officiant in ceremony

This is how an entire family that grows up together in the United States can end up with one person undocumented

Justice
A cover illustration for the Communist-era board game Burokratopoly, which is being re-launched by Berlin's DDR Museum.

To understand life in East Germany, all you need is this board game

Culture