
The first time I traveled alone with my children through a U.S. airport, my daughter was strapped in a stroller and my son could barely toddle. I remember standing in that security line, watching it snake endlessly ahead of us, and thinking: This is going to be hell. I was right. In the United States,…

We still use language from the Cold War to describe a world that no longer exists. First World. Third World. The terminology implies a hierarchy that made sense in 1975 but has little to do with how millions of people actually live today. The Moment I Knew When we first moved into our apartment abroad,…