Americans Abroad Obama

World to Obama: Thanks for Giving Us Back Our America

Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics


Rebecca Novick

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.

What it Means to Be American

Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.20.2009 | World


Josh Ruxin

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."

Proud in Paris!

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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.

Pay Attention: Americans Who Live Abroad Are Still Americans

Beth Arnold | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics


Beth Arnold

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.

A View From Abroad: Obama As A Surprise To The World From America

Denise Dennis | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home


Denise Dennis

"America, this young nation, is still capable of surprising us. The country of the KKK has the capacity to give the highest charge to a black person... Obama has become the symbol of modernity."