Opinion Why not require a civics test as a rite of passage for all Americans?

Contributing columnist
March 4, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST
(Molly Magnell for The Washington Post)
7 min

One morning this January, Yulia Wardani stepped into a small office in downtown Newark to change her identity.

Across the desk was an officer of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who began posing questions from the USCIS naturalization civics test.

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.