Over at National Review, Charles C. W. Cooke, a “British subject living in America,” takes a look at what it means to be an American. Expanding on Ronald Reagan’s famous quote that “you can go to live in Turkey but you can’t become a Turk. You can’t go to live in Japan and become Japanese. But…anyone from any corner of the world can come to America and be an American,” Cooke explores what it is–beyond having the right papers and simply being in America–that makes one an American.

A new study by the Center for the Study of the American Dream at Xavier University confirms what we already know: Americans perform poorly on the Citizenship test.

At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner wonders what Americans need to know about their system of government.