While the airlines are undeniably cramming us all in regardless of our waist size, for passengers who truly don’t fit in a standard economy seat, policies like Southwest’s help not only them but their fellow travelers be safer and more comfortable onboard, and that’s a good thing.
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Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Thanks to the limited number of guests on board, every aspect of the journey is more personal—from the warm camaraderie of fellow travelers to the attentive crew who tailor experiences to each guest’s interests and activity levels.
After the photo, Xi, Putin and Kim led the group to their seats, chatting via interpreters in a conversation that was partially picked up by microphones.
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Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
Watching Willner at work in the studio with such talented Bolan interpreters as Beth Orton, U2, Joan Jett, Nick Cave, Lucinda Williams, Father John Misty, and Maria McKee is a poignant treat.
Trump and his hogmen are co-opting actual Nazi lingo from the gutter of the internet, speaking in references only Fox News viewers and Q-Anon adherents can parse, and rehabilitating the r-word as some sort of edgy pose that the rest of us learned was cruel in middle school.
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James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
After the Great Black Migration in the 1920s, our city was one of the centers of the Ku Klux Klan’s revival as the strongest populist movement of the decade, claiming 5 million adherents, with 50,000 in Chicago alone.
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