In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by ...
For Americans venturing beyond their borders, the world can feel like an entirely different planet. While globalization has ...
Whether it's the way people greet each other or how they handle their food, these cultural quirks can be surprising and sometimes bewildering. Here are 14 cultural norms from around the world that ...
Judy Song-Marshall is Chief Strategy Officer of Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit organization that runs the .ORG Family of Domains. I’m not what most people picture when they think of the ...
The world of American politics and cultural values has radically departed from my lifetime sense of the American trajectory. Something changed substantially in 2016, and I worry that it might be ...
A passport can inform which government recognizes us on paper. But it doesn’t tell us what holds the nation together, what binds disparate strangers into a people.

What Is an American?

The narrow, legal answer is straightforward: An American is a citizen of the United States, born or naturalized. That ...
Faith, Family, and Flag” by Washington University professor Joanna Dee Das explores how Branson, Missouri, became America’s ...