Hawaii at 5-0
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The 50th state celebrates its 50th birthday today. From Magnum P.I. to Mauna Loa to Michelle Wie, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the Aloha State.
Will Americans Flee Mexico?
San Francisco-based writer Laura Fraser is the author of the best-selling travel memoir An Italian Affair, and the upcoming sequel All Over the Map. She is a contributing editor at More, and last year won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Bert Greene Award for Essay Writing.
Amid the flu hysteria, Americans currently south of the border weigh the risks of leaving town or staying put. Laura Fraser reports from her part-time home in San Miguel de Allende.
Africa's Surprise Success Story
Tony Blair is founder of the Breaking the Climate Deadlock Initiative and was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007. Visit tonyblairoffice.org.
Writing from Africa, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says Sierra Leone, the once war-torn nation now reinventing itself as a tourist destination, can serve as a model for developing nations struggling to weather the economic storm.
On Vacation in Iraq
Eight people join the first officially sanctioned visit to Iraq by Western tourists since 2003. One traveler says she feels safe, despite hearing explosions outside her hotel.
Time to Make Nice with Cuba?
Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.
If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will embrace us-and it will ruin the place.
While the rest of the world is shivering, the Kiwis are out rafting, surfing, kayaking, climbing, and biking under blue skies and brilliant sun. New Zealand is green, clean, and meant to be seen, and the austral summer is the prime time....
Richard Bangs has been a pioneer in digital media and commerce, and other frontiers. He co-founded the adventure-travel company Mountain Travel Sobek and spent 30 years as an explorer and communicator. His latest book is Quest for the Sublime.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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