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Government Doesn’t Have to Manage the Air
The long lines at TSA checkpoints are driving Americans crazy. But the problem is bigger than Congress’s refusal to appropriate money for the TSA.
Judge Glock
Never Kill Yourself
When I went to the doctor in Vancouver with back pain, she offered me assisted suicide; instead, I recovered—and went to Cuba!
Miriam Lancaster
‘It’s Not Safe for Anyone’: A TSA Officer on Working Without Pay
I’ve worked for the TSA for 23 years. Congress needs to fund frontline workers like me before there is a tragic security failure.
Edward N.
Things Worth Remembering: To Sit at the Same Table
A stanza from ‘The House by the Side of the Road’ became my family’s reminder that no argument can float too far from the deeper connection of love…
Keaton Swett
Norman Podhoretz: The Longest Journey in the World
The legendary magazine editor died Tuesday night at 95. In his final published words, he reflects on a life well lived.
Norman Podhoretz
A Man Should Know: How to Travel
It seems reasonable to ask that we not treat the airport as a living room. But we also want to be comfortable when we travel. How do we strike the…
Elliot Ackerman
I Found Freedom Along the Alaska Highway
The good things happen on the margins: eccentric innkeepers, moose roaming the back roads, and Dolly Parton on the stereo at 2 a.m.
Paul Kingsnorth
Norman Podhoretz: The Longest Journey in the World
My double life between Brooklyn and Manhattan—grit and glamour, loyalty and betrayal—nearly tore me apart. It also saved me.
Norman Podhoretz
Falling in Love on the Back of a Motorcycle
My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel what it’s like to fly. This is the closest I’ve come.
Agnes Callard
Chris Rufo: Why My Sons and I Take the Train
On a train from Seattle to Los Angeles, they learned what the road cannot teach: intimacy with strangers, the weight of history, and the beauty of time…
Christopher F. Rufo
Things Worth Remembering: A Chinese Poem on a Greyhound Bus
This is the magic of keeping a verse in the locket of one’s memory: You can recall it at will as company and consolation. No device or charging station…
Joseph Massey
I Once Thought Europeans Lived as Well as Americans. Not Anymore.
Europe is the world’s most wonderful museum, but at the end of the day I want my air-conditioning and clothes dryer.
Tyler Cowen
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