Airports for most people are the physical embodiment of stress. For me, however, that moment lasts only as long as the walk from the car up to security. The moment I leave one parent behind to embark on what is usually a cross-country flight towards the other, the nervousness subsides and gives way to ease of mind. Judging by the faces of my fellow travelers, most of the people around me feel like horses being led to the glue factory....

What first excited me about GW was its location. I have been to D.C. once before, for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity”. Although I was there for what seemed like a joke of a gathering, it still felt powerful and weighty just by virtue of being in the nation’s capital. And at its heart, it still was; it was a gathering of people for something they believed in, even if they had their...

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