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The Perils of Teen Travel
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Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
Parents pay big bucks to send their kids on far-flung summer trips. But as Kathleen Kingsbury reports, the reality may involve robbery, sex predators, and even death.
Celibate Celebrities
The Rove You Don't Know
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Biden's Disastrous Israel Trip
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Alternative Russian Classics
Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in San Francisco. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She teaches at Stanford University.
Obama Gets His Mojo Back
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
America's Craziest Cities
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