April 16 is the day I become an American. In the fullest sense of the word, I will also become a dual citizen with Australia, the country where I grew up. I am deeply thankful for this privilege. Yet I cannot help but reflect on the widening chasm between the founding principles of the American nation, to which I now swear allegiance, and the current state of…well, the state itself. I have called the United States home since September 11, 2009. I was twenty-five years old, born and raised in a small Australian town of roughly 4,000 people. The “Lucky Country," a land of indescribable beauty...