You can run for Congress if you're a citizen. If you just visit for a few weeks a year then your efforts at political improvement might be better spent in your home country (it can't be that flawless, can it?).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.