By Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
Passports occupy a place in some of our most avid fantasies. They can promise travel to exotic destinations; they can provide secure passage to a new life far away; they can enable flight from the dangers...
By Mark Levine, author of We’ll Play Till We Die and Heavy Metal Islam
The video, posted anonymously on Facebook, had only 300 views when I first saw it. The singer wasn’t named, and in fact wasn’t even in the video — the camera stayed steady on the crowd. The words supplied their own ...