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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s crusade against military facial hair is just the latest in a long line of rules you’d struggle to find anywhere else in American life.Some services ban chewing gum or sipping a drink while walking. However, one particularly strange rule for many troops, even when it’s…
I’ve spent years filling up my passport with stamps from all around the world, from Australia to Latin America to Asia.I was even the first in my family to travel internationally — the only vacations we’d been on were road trips in our home country, Germany.By the end of 2021,…
As former San Franciscans, my husband, toddler, and I quickly felt at home in Bristol.The progressive UK port city boasts an iconic suspension bridge, heaps of counterculture, and — not least because it’s the birthplace of Banksy — a vibrant creative scene.We’ve found comfort in these parallels, but we’ve faced…
