Kidnappings Of Expatriates Increase Worldwide, Says Author
Nicholas Schmidle, author of "To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan", his account of his years as an expatriate in Pakistan, ...
Nicholas Schmidle, author of "To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan", his account of his years as an expatriate in Pakistan, ...
James Glave | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
There are a number of Americans who left the country at some point for various reasons -- and who now can't return because they or their dependents are effectively uninsurable.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
According to the data/surveying firm Mercer, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan surpassed Moscow in 2009 as the most expensive city in the world for expats, due t...
Beth Arnold | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
With yet another round of Dick Cheney disinformation saturating the airwaves, it boggles the mind how the Bush administration controlled the American conversation in the media for so many years.
Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
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.
Ron Katz | Posted 02.21.2009 | World
The inaugural line snaked from the door of city hall around to a corner more than 500 yards away. This was not the city hall in Washington, D.C., nor one in any other American city. It was the Hotel de Ville in Paris, headquarters of the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoƫ, and the hundreds of bureaucrats charged with administering the capital of France.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living
I telephoned a girlfriend today for a chat and she hit me with a bombshell. She politely told me that she saw no point in continuing our friendship.
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.
Stefan Sirucek | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
If America is indeed on the path to being cool again we might see a wave of this sort of voluntary repatriation.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
Expats have a high chance of not getting to fully participate in this election. One million absentee ballots were requested in the 2006 midterm election but only a third of those votes were counted.
Jessica Roy | Posted 11.07.2008 | Style
I am an American woman. What does this mean, other than the fact that French men believe that we are easy and want to touch my hair on the Metro?
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home
The internet has made it a great deal easier for the 6 million U.S. expats to vote. It seems clear that more young people living overseas will vote than ever before and that there are more Democrats than Republicans casting overseas ballots.
Yanqui Mike Skowronek | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
An American-born Argentine travels to Denver to cover the DNC, and gets a taste of America.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?
Elaine Meyer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Super-delegates are often portrayed as the ultimate Democratic party insiders, people who hold elected office or have been high-ranking staff on a pol...
Posted 12.10.2009 | Books