Craving one of America’s great tradition (a.k.a. gorging on turkey), Locke McKenzie copes with celebrating Thanksgiving on a continent where it doesn’t exist.

The President of the United States is often called the leader of the free world. Locke McKenzie finds that the enthusiasm for Obama’s victory is perhaps greater in the “free world” than it is in America.

Locke McKenzie disassociates the link between the Third Reich from modern Germany.

Language isn’t a product, but that fact certainly doesn’t stop people from trying to sell it. Locke McKenzie confronts the subject of “Business English,” a bastardization of language teaching that dodges the political and cultural features of English.

With reverence to Ralph Ellison, Locke McKenzie confronts the dual identity of expats. When you have two nationalities, which one do you call home?

Rioting: is it impassioned activism or groupthink-escalated violence? Locke McKenzie notices that Germans like to riot about, well, everything.

Locke McKenzie relishes in the glory of Budweiser, the great American beer… which is now owned by Belgian-Brazilian conglomerate InBev.

In the tradition of Hank Williams (or the Allman Brothers, depending on who you ask), Locke McKenzie, an expatriate working as a freelance English teacher in Germany, introduces his new column, The Rambling American.

Ever since Hemingway and Pound made their way across the ocean almost 100 years ago, the title of expatriate has carried a stigma of hope and elitism. Told through the lens of Germany’s richest and also smuttiest city, newbie expat Locke McKenzie discovers that the only way to get by abroad is to be a good American.