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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Beatrice Scudeler |Michael Reneau |Hannah Anderson
'The threat with China is much worse than you think.' Published April 7, 2025 GOP Sen. Tom Cotton joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss his news book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, as well as the looming military threats against Taiwan and the Republican Party’s divided foreign policy views.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Hannah Anderson
Hi and happy Sunday. Increasing efficiency in the federal government—the stated goal of Elon Musk’s new agency within the Trump administration—is a laudable goal in the abstract, and federal bureaucracies are certainly ripe for reform. Few Americans are likely to argue that point. But what happens when the impulse to slash runs amok, divorced from any notion of the value of work and how work itself—vocation—is baked into us as humans?
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2 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Wear |Michael Reneau |Theodore Goldstein |Hannah Anderson
I have been thinking a lot about agency lately. Politics in America over the last decade has felt designed, scripted even, to rob people of their own sense of agency. I think many people feel as if our politics is happening to them—affecting their livelihood, their relationships, their neighborhoods—and is beyond their reach or influence. But agency is not only essential for a healthy democracy, agency is an essential aspect of what it means to be human.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | James Sutton |Paul Miller |Alexander William Salter |Hannah Anderson
On a sunny day in October I was showing two Australian friends visiting the United States for the first time around the National Mall. After we passed the Vietnam Memorial, we were greeted by a very strange sight. Ten massive, concert-style screens were laid out before the Capitol, with a well-coiffed blonde woman on the farthest stage preaching to thousands of people. The crowd was mainly women, of all ages and races, wearing pink T-shirts that read #DontMessWithOurKids.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Stephanie Murray |Michael Reneau |Hannah Anderson
A little over a year ago, I interviewed a demographer for a piece about the possible causes of fertility decline. (The piece, sadly, was never published.) At some point in our conversation, she stopped me in order to clarify something: The problem with falling fertility, she wanted me to know, is not that people are choosing to have too few kids, but that they are having fewer kids than they’d like.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
wdwinfo.com | Hannah Anderson
If you know me, you know that I LOVE Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort! It’s my favorite resort at Walt Disney World and I have so many fond memories from over 20 trips with my family. So when Disney began construction on the new Disney Vacation Club Island Tower at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows, I was skeptical about the look and feel of the towering building. Mostly because I love the 1970s feel of the Polynesian and the longhouse design that is so unique from Disney’s newer resorts.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
wdwinfo.com | Hannah Anderson
The DIS Unlimited team had the pleasure of trying countless restaurants at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland this past year! While most restaurants had at least one item we enjoyed, there were four table service restaurants that we overall did not enjoy and did not receive high ratings from the team. Follow this link if you’d like to read about our four BEST restaurant experiences of 2024. Keep in mind, these are only the worst from the table service restaurants we reviewed in 2024.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
wdwinfo.com | Hannah Anderson
DinoLand U.S.A. always shines bright for the holiday season with its campy Christmas décor, light-up dinosaurs, and characters like Chip ‘n’ Dale in special costumes. This year DinoLand is also home to the Santa Claus meet and greet at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. You can meet Santa on the “Parasaurolophus Porch” on the left side of Restaurantosaurus and directly across from DINOSAUR.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
wdwinfo.com | Hannah Anderson
Columbia Harbour House is one of the best quick-service restaurants in the Magic Kingdom with ample seating, cozy décor, and a menu that offers more than just theme park burgers. The literal icing on the cake is the NEW seasonal Gingerbread Cake; making the nice list for this year’s holiday treats at Walt Disney World!Columbia Harbour House is located in Liberty Square directly across from the Haunted Mansion.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
wdwinfo.com | Hannah Anderson
Taking a loop on Disney World’s monorail is undoubtedly a Disney rite of passage. You can then level up this experience by making it a “Monorail Crawl” complete with stopping at a lounge or restaurant at each of the three monorail resorts – the Contemporary, Polynesian Village, and Grand Floridian. Not only is this a great opportunity to check out the stunning lobbies of Disney World’s premier resorts but you can also sample food and drink items you can’t get anywhere else on property.
