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How to visit dark tourism destinations in an ethical way Anita Isalska Abandoned ferris wheel in amusement park in Pripyat, Chernobyl area © Hellen Sergeyeva / Shutterstock Even if you don’t consider yourself a dark tourist, it’s natural to be intrigued by sites associated with death and tragedy. Concentration camps, disaster memorials and other dark tourism sites preserve the evidence of humankind’s worst cruelty. They also offer stories of hope and solidarity from the bleake...

Christine Flowers People often try to sound profound by quoting Santayana’s apocryphal statement, “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” But Santayana had his finger on the pulse of my nation in this moment. There is a lot of hysteria spreading among the cultured classes, but since they are the cultured classes, it is repackaged as concern for social norms and national security. What appears to the naked eye and the unbiased mind as a dance with...

January 23, 2021 Payal Dhar THE WASHINGTON POST – Social distancing and travel are two things, much like Kipling’s East and West, that you would imagine would never meet. Then the coronavirus made it clear that the tourism industry needed strategies to survive beyond the pandemic. Thus, we can now wander virtual galleries and museums, take off on digital safaris, and experience remote guided tours. Even university researchers have been taking an interest in the matter – consider this Corn...

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To suggest that someone who says stop the steal or who questioned the validity of an election is an enemy of the state, is itself a toxic injection into the civic body.

Jan. 15, 2021 … Put more succinctly by John Miller, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism at the New York Police Department, in an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday: “It’s taken us aback to see people who look like ‘normal people’ cross that line.” Miller’s blunt assessment raises the question of what, exactly, passes for “normal people” today. But we know what they’ve looked like for the past several centuries: White. Male. Christian. “Real Americans” �...

People often try and sound profound by quoting Santayana’s apocryphal statement, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it." I plead guilty to the same thing,

In the annals of political hypocrisy, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. deserves his own chapter. Following the so-called rioting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Biden stuck out his hollow chest, struck a heroic pose and thundered: “What we witnessed was not dissent; it was disorder. It was not a protest [ unlike all of the ‘peaceful protests’ Democrats abetted since the death of George Floyd]. It was chaos. They weren’t protestors, don’t dare to call them protestors. They were a riotou...

10 Things to Know Before Visiting Cambodia January 7, 2021 January 7, 2021 / By Mitch Glass Cambodia is one of those countries in Southeast Asia that usually isn’t on the top of most travelers’ lists.  It gets overshadowed by the likes of Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.  But mark my words… Angkor Wat with reflection in water They are still rebuilding from a tragic past—with pain from the brutal Khmer Rouge that still stings to this day. Because of this, we almost skipped Ca...

Dirty Sexy Money: The Unauthorized Biography of Kris Jenner Dirty Sexy Money: The Unauthorized Biography of Kris Jenner A TRUE STORY OF AMBITION, WEALTH, BETRAYAL AND HOW A RUTHLESS BEVERLY HILLS SOCIALITE BECAME THE ULTIMATE MOMAGER AND RAKED IN BILLIONS The picture painted is one of a woman who was savvy, steely, ambitious, deliberate who has played the long game in a town where fifteen minutes of fame is all too fleeting.” — Cathy GriffinNEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, December 29, 2020 /EI...