I've always said that a few years abroad should be required for Americans. But recently, I've been meeting people who've spent those few years abroad but who remain remarkably closed-minded, and provincial. Maybe it's mitigated by the years abroad, maybe the years abroad did nothing and they would have ended up this way anyway, or [...]

In an article published in March, economists William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko noted that in Sub-Saharan Africa, remittances (money sent by immigrants abroad back to their home countries) on average amounted to 81 percent of the foreign aid received by an individual country. The role of the diaspora in the development of Madagascar has been discussed [...]

I didn't realize till we looked into it that any American living out of the country, whether civilian or military, is entitled to vote in national elections in the state where they last lived in the US. Get all the details, and fill out a form to apply, at They give various tips, including the comment that may reassure some of you: Voting only in federal elections only cannot be used to affect ...

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 I just heard a scary piece on National Public Radio, regarding the number of U.S. American families living abroad, whose votes are NOT COUNTED in elections, b/c of inconvenience and delays ... them back in before the deadline — all of which varies from state to state since none of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "For Americans trying to vote from abroad.", url: " });

Andrew Zuhusky '10 wrote to us asing a big question: Is anyone living in Jarvis this semester, going abroad next semester? If anyone is living abroad next semester or moving out of Jarvis contact Andrew via his Facebook (linked above) or via Trinity e-mail (andrew.zuhusky@trincoll).