I stepped from the dimly lit terminal into the parking lot at at Havana International Airport. Blinking to let my eyes adjust to the brilliant sunshine, I marveled at row upon row of classic cars, their rounded silhouettes a chorus line of humpback whales. I knew about Cuba’s classic cars, but had not expected to...

"There is an almost Orientalist presumption [on the part of travel guidebooks] that the citizens of places like Cuba or Afghanistan have made a choice in rejecting globalization and consumerism. From the perspective of the disaffected Westerner, poverty is seen as enviable, a pure existence unsullied by capitalism. [ Lonely Planet: Cuba co-author Brendan] Sainsbury...

Just last month and exactly one year after Scott wrote that it might be possible for U.S. vagabonds to visit Cuba soon , Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) made the following statement in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; [edited] Americans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,...