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“I’m not a vacation expert. Barely a vacation veteran. If you remove bachelor parties, I’ve been on fewer than 10,” writes columnist Damon Young (@damonyoungvsb). “Yet this lack of experience is why I’m specifically equipped to say that most of you are bad at it. Because I have no vacation baggage. ... I’m coming in cold and sober, with fresh eyes to assess you and your vacationing deficiencies.” Head to the link in our bio to read why everyone is vacationing wrong, according to Young. (Illustration: @made.by.small)
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Photo The Washington Post Magazine - Vodou is a religion freighted with mischaracterizations, down to its very name, which is frequently styled incorrectly as “voodoo.” Among practitioners, the word is considered a pejorative. For…
Photo The Washington Post Magazine - To mark the one-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul, the magazine features a photo essay from photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli (@lorenzotug), who has been photographing Afghanistan since 2009 and…
Photo The Washington Post Magazine - Historians estimate that 1 in 4 cowboys in this country in the 19th century was Black. Many Black people worked with horses and other livestock during slavery, and after Emancipation those skills…
Photo The Washington Post Magazine - “Almost 80 percent of the country thinks that a politician should not come between a woman and this most intimate decision of our lives, between a woman and her doctor,” said Heather Booth, 76, who…
Photo The Washington Post Magazine - “The second thing I was reminded of when I first re-watched ‘Boomerang’ this year was how good everyone looked,” writes columnist Damon Young (@damonyoungvsb). “Each man was uncommonly handsome. Not…
Photo The Washington Post Magazine - “[‘The Wire’] was a cautionary tale of how the dysfunction of America’s institutions can be crushing to the individual and self-destructive to the institution itself,” says Wendell Pierce…

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