World to Obama: Thanks for Giving Us Back Our America
It's the immigrants who really know the fragility of liberty; how it can be won and lost, and won and lost again. For them freedom is not a parade. It's a flower in a storm.
It's the immigrants who really know the fragility of liberty; how it can be won and lost, and won and lost again. For them freedom is not a parade. It's a flower in a storm.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.20.2009 | World
I'd like to go back to Rwanda or Kenya or Ethiopia on Jan. 20. I could point to the TV and say: "Look. Listen. This is what it means to be American."
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
The reasons why I left the U.S. have now been replaced with reasons why I want to be back there. I did not recognize my government for eight years. Now it begins to make sense again.
Beth Arnold | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
The fact that some of us Americans don't live within our country's borders doesn't make us less American. In this time of unifying America, accept your cousins who don't live at home.
Kate Southwood | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style
I've lived in Oslo for eleven years and, although I've rarely feared for my physical safety as an American abroad, I've taken pains not to advertise my citizenship.
Jessica Roy | Posted 10.30.2008 | Style
Upon landing in Paris I promptly realized that everything was different; even small things, like strange-tasting toothpaste and a startling lack of tofu.
K.J. Dwyer | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home
There are now roughly 6.6 million Americans living abroad; the number of national delegates now at 22. Expats have voted for Obama by a two to one margin.
Bryan Galvan | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home
MADRID -- In the wake of the "Obamania" that followed the Illinois senator through the Middle East and Europe, it's surprising that many here still se...
Beth Arnold | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The fact that the majority of the rest of the world shares the viewpoint that Obama is the best -- candidate for the U.S. presidency is only icing on our nation's cake.
Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics