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I was an American diplomat for 12 years, traveling and immersing myself in cultures around the world. Here's what you can learn from diplomats when you're traveling

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Meet the blacksmiths who are keeping the 2,500-year-old craft of sword making alive in Toledo, Spain
The State Department has a decent overall guide to the latest threats. But, honestly, you are better off reading some of the news from the country. Don't let it overwhelm you, but even if you don't speak the language, use an online translator to get a sense of what's happening with security,
politics, and major upcoming events. Also, make sure you set up an alert to notify you of major news stories in the countries where you will be traveling.
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Republican Free Speech Tourists Cancel College Students and Ban Ideas

Stanford conservatives showed that the right can play "cry-bully" and "hall monitor" just as well as the "snowflakes" on the left that they abhor.

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Buying a Home in the COVID Housing Market Is Absolute Hell

House hunting in the COVID era is a Kafkaesque nightmare of wildly overpriced homes, minuscule inventory, and desperate competition.

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Ellie Kemper Isn't a 'KKK Princess,' Punishment Culture Isn't Justice

Actress Ellie Kemper was slammed by news outlets and on Twitter for being a "KKK Princess." Just one problem: it's not remotely true.

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Hollywood and the NBA Need to Stop Bending the Knee to China

John Cena's apology to China for calling Taiwan a "country," was embarrassing, but typical.
When a NBA executive tweeted support for Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators, the outspoken social justice activist and superstar Lebron James stood up for ... China.
American institutions could stand up to the genocidal China Communist Party. It would mean losing some profits, but it's the right thing to do.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
China's Communist Party is a genocidal dictatorship that, at best, continues to block international efforts to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic's origins.
President Joe Biden has at last brought a sense of urgency to investigating the possibility that the coronavirus was the result of an accidental leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And his Asia czar Kurt Campbell publicly conceded that when it comes to US-China relations "the period that was broadly described as engagement has come to an end."

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Several members of my family in India got COVID, so I flew home to help. While the US reopens, India is still deep in crisis.

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Several members of my family in India got COVID, so I flew home to help. While the US reopens, India is still deep in crisis.
Several members of my family in India got COVID, so I flew home to help. While the US reopens, India is still deep in crisis.
Amitoj SinghMay 22, 2021, 18:23 IST
Multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for the mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021.Altaf Qadri/AP
With 24 hours notice, I flew from New York to New Delhi to help my father care for sick family members.

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Britain's photo ID system undermines the democracy it is trying to preserve

Britain's photo ID system undermines the democracy it is trying to preserve
Parisa HashempourMay 22, 2021, 19:28 IST
A voter leaves a polling location in the UK.Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The Queen announced that
elections.
In a country where an estimated quarter of voters lack ID, the move undermines democracy and disproportionately harms marginalized citizens.
With extraordinarily low levels of electoral fraud conviction in the UK, the scheme will fortify the Conservatives' stronghold and is an expensive distraction from much-needed social reform.
Parisa Hashempour is a freelance journalist and International Studies lecturer living in the Netherlands.
This is an
opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.

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Teachers Unions Say Schools Will Reopen. I'll Believe It When I See It.

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The politically-powerful teachers unions say they're ready to send their members back to work, now that the COVID pandemic is effectively over.
And yet as a NYC public school parent, I don't believe my kids will have full-time, in-person, five-day-a-week learning this September.
Because with the teachers unions there's always a "but" — just as there is this time.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
One of the US' major teachers' unions has, at long last, come around to admitting its members should be back in school, full-time, this fall. It's a huge, albeit long-delayed, development. But as a parent of three school-aged kids, count me as still skeptical.

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Abolish Traffic Stops and Stop Criminalizing Everything

Daunte Wright and Eric Garner's deaths showed how petty laws and needless traffic stops lead to violent confrontations with police. Do away with them.

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Columbus, Ohio Police Department Proves Cops Aren't Afraid to Abuse Power

The brand of policing happening in Columbus, Ohio, does little to protect or serve anyone. Ma'khia Bryant's death proves it.

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