Dubai Paid Beyoncé $24M. She Gave Them Her Integrity.

Beyoncé headlines the Grand Reveal of Dubai’s newest luxury hotel, Atlantis The Royal in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Kevin Mazur via Getty Images)
Our celebrities call democracy tyranny, then don’t recognize real tyranny when it hands them a check.
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I went to Dubai once. It is where tyranny meets hyper-capitalism, and it is as awful as it sounds.
I was helping a journalist friend research an article. I spent my days admiring an undersea bedroom in a lagoon and a ski slope inside a mall. At night I would meet trafficked maids, or a woman imprisoned for adultery. I asked an ancient British tourist wh…
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