It also excludes the places that are still territories of the United States—Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Today, the U.S. possesses five populated territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands — which are home to over three million people.

Although people in other territories are considered citizens who cannot vote in national elections by virtue of not living in states, American Samoans are not even considered citizens at all ...

The territories should have a place, too, in any ongoing discussion of the nation’s complex cultural identity and who can claim to be a so-called real American.

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act allows former residents of any of the 50 states living in a U.S. territory or commonwealth to vote absentee in presidential elections.

The United States has possession of several overseas territories in the western and central Pacific, a constellation of American islands—including Guam and Saipan, Wake Island, and Palmyra Atoll ...

After an Appeals Court ruling on Friday, American Samoa remains the only place in the United States where U.S. citizenship is not granted at birth.. As my colleague Mark Joseph Stern explained ...