The Digital Nomad's Guide To Working From Anywhere On Earth

The work-anywhere, travel-the-world fringe lifestyle is going mainstreamand these apps, services, and events are here to help.
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Inside the final days of the Standing Rock protest

“Those small victories were always difficult to claim at Standing Rock because the terms of the protests were absolute — either the pipeline was built or it wasn’t — and I imagine that as people return to their homes or ship off to the next fight, they will have to find a more personal justification for the months they spent there.” By Jay Caspian Kang. (Feb. 21, 2017)
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Powerful Letters From Former Slaves To Their Old Masters

Moving messages of both anger and forgiveness.
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Can Customs and Border Protection Agents Demand to See Your ID on a Domestic Trip?

Passengers on a flight deplaning in New York were asked for their identification—a request that raises thorny constitutional questions.
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The disappearance of Jonathan Spollen

Five years ago, Jonathan Spollen was travelling in India - then he vanished. What might have happened?
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Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War

What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
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16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways

It's not everyday you see a book that can be read in six completely different ways, and this small book from the National Library of Sweden is definitely an anomaly.
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Decoding the ancient tale of mass suicide in the Judaean desert

Have archaeologists proven the ancient tale of mass suicide in the Judaean desert or twisted science for political end?
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Legalizing Marijuana Would Hurt Mexican Drug Cartels More Than Trump's Border Wall

A crucial part of President Donald Trump's rationale for building a wall along the United State's border with Mexico is that it would help to stop the trade of illegal drugs, including marijuana. "I want to build the wall. We need the wall," Trump said at one of the presidential debates last year. "We stop the drugs. We shore up the border."
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Japan has Northern Territories deal ready for Russia- Nikkei Asian Review

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is set to propose to Russia specific plans for joint economic development in what it calls the Northern Territories a
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A startup sale made this low-level employee into an Indian millionaire

Kumar, originally from the eastern state of Uttar Pradesh, joined the budding startup with an initial monthly salary of Rs8,000 ($120). As one of the first employees, Kumar was signed up for the employee stock ownership plan. He didn’t fully understand how it worked, but did grasp that it might yield long-term benefits.
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For Kim Jong Nam, a sad ending to a lonely life

He was born into the ruthless North Korean dictatorship and could never quite escape it.
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These ’80s Artists Are More Important Than Ever

The influence of the Pictures Generation, a loosely affiliated Reagan-era movement of New York Artists, continues to resonate today.
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How Paul Smith Changed The Way British Men Dress

Sir Paul Smith long ago earned his stripes as the quintessential British fashion designer. Today, as he enters his eighth decade, he still has plenty of tricks up his elegantly tailored sleeve (rubber chicken included).
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Jack Barsky: The KGB spy who lived the American dream

The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense. It's no secret that the Russians have long tried to plant "sleeper agents" in the US - men and women indistinguishable from normal Americans, who live - on the surface - completely normal lives. But what happens when one of them doesn't want to go home?
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The man behind the 'doomsday' vault that stores every known crop on the planet explains how it came to be

Buried in the side of a mountain in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault stores virtually every kind of seed.
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Paint it grey: the controversial plan to 'beautify' São Paulo

As part of an effort to ‘clean up’ Brazil’s third-biggest city, mayor João Doria has been down on his knees, spraying grey paint over beloved street art. Locals are furious
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Swedes should take sex breaks from work, says politician

Sweden is renowned for its innovative take on employment.  In January nurses in Gothenburg became part of a two-year pilot scheme that introduced a six-hour working day. The six-hour day was proven to reduce absence and improve patient care. 
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Putin’s holy war

It was just before dawn when close to a dozen police officers wearing helmets and body armor burst into the apartment where Yevgeny Lebedev lives with his wife and children in northern Moscow. “They forced me to lie on the floor with my face down,” Lebedev recalled of the raid in mid-November. “They wouldn’t let me look up while they searched the apartment. My children were terrified. It took my five-year-old daughter a long time to get over it. She thought they were criminals who had come to rob us.”
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Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles.

A French military program adapts the ancient art of falconry to the threats of unmanned flight.
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Life expectancy forecast to exceed 90 years in coming decades

Study shows significant increase in lifespan, with South Korea top of league table and other countries not far behind
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China to build floating nuclear power stations in the South China Sea

Beijing is doubling down on nuclear energy development in an effort to pump up power in the South China Sea.
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Chinese Trademarks And The Emoluments Clause: Do They Intersect In The Trump Presidency?

As the world continues to get used to an America with a President Donald Trump at its head, the binary nature of the current political climate has reared its own head in unfortunate ways. One example of this is the stunning speed with which many of...
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33 questions about Donald Trump and Russia

There’s an awful lot of loose ends here.
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The Women of the Ku Klux Klan” — 1920s

Yes, there was a Women’s KKK.
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Two brothers are obsessively filming every national park, with spectacular results

Will and Jim Pattiz just released their tenth national park video. What began as a passion project is now a self-sustaining creative business for the brothers.
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Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons often differ from men's

A key point of difference between male and female sexual abusers of children is in the power relationship with their victims.
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Strong Storms Pound North Carolina Coast

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The Age of Rudeness

As the social contract frays, what does it mean to be polite? By Rachel Cusk.
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How Tube stations got their unusual names

The names of stops on the London Underground can seem nonsensical: think Elephant & Castle or Shepherd’s Bush. But they actually hide 2,000 years of odd anecdotes and historic quirks.
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Pictures from our trip to France.

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California bill would make Election Day a state holiday

Many Californians would no longer have to worry about squeezing a trip to the polls into their working day if a bill proposed by a Silicon Valley lawmaker becomes law.
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Where's Gandalf? Photographer snaps wizard at New Zealand beauty spots

Indian amateur photographer Akhil Suhas gains thousands of Instagram followers with his quirky holiday project
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Donald Trump is copying Putin, says America's former ambassador to Russia

The US’ former ambassador to Russia has accused Donald Trump of emulating Vladimir Putin’s “autocratic” style in his opening weeks in office. Michael McFaul, who was Barack Obama’s envoy to Moscow between 2012 and 2014, said the President’s “warm statements” over his Russian counterpart were worrying.
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The travel-only Gmail account: A practical proposal for digital privacy at the US border

xkcd’s well-circulated wrench scenario, pictured above, is demonstrated hauntingly well by this week’s story of Sidd Bikkannavar, a US-born NASA engineer who was coerced into breaching the security of his government-issued phone in order to enter the United States. US Customs and Border Patrol detained Bikkannavar, who like me has Global Entry, upon entering and demanded he unlock his cell phone for searching. About 30 minutes later, he got his phone back and was free to go. He’s still unaware what took place during that time.
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"I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you."

"I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you."
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Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence

The contacts in the year before the election were revealed by intercepted communications, according to four current and former senior American officials.
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US travel industry has lost $185 million since Trump took office – and things are likely to get worse

President Trump has cost the US travel industry around $185 million (£148 million) in lost revenue, according to the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).
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The maid slaves

Each year 17,000 domestic workers accompany wealthy families to the UK – helped by a special visa regime that campaigners call a “recipe for slavery”.
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Last Dance: A dozen hustled & bustled abandoned discos.

Disco ducks and dancing queens can no longer shake their booties since these dozen decrepit abandoned discotheques took down their mirror balls.
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Government-grade cyber-weapons used against Mexican soda-tax activists

An investigation revealing that Mexican soda tax supporters were targeted with NSO Group's government-exclusive spyware and exploit framework.
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New Zealanders race to rescue stranded whales-Pictures

A dead pilot whale lies on a sandbank after one of the country's largest recorded mass whale strandings, in Golden Bay, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. REUTERS/Anthony Phelps
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The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins

Our Intelligence Community is pushing back against a White House it considers dishonest and penetrated by the Kremlin.
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The Lavish Work of One of the Last Gilders of the Versailles Court

The first exhibit on Pierre Gouthière at the Frick Collection in New York brings together lavish examples of his gilding for the French court of Versailles.
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50 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1967

A half-century ago, protests erupted around the world against the Vietnam War, Montreal hosted Expo ‘67, race riots in the U.S. destroyed parts northern cities, Elvis Presley married Priscilla in Las Vegas, and much more.
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America’s 10 worst urban highways

A new national report advocates tearing down ten aging highways in order to improve cities across the United States.
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Found: A Crucial Map of Tokyo's Ancient Edo Castle, Which Was Ready for War

It was originally built in 1457.
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Valley of the Rocks

Taken from the coastal path [Pentax K10/Samsung GX10]
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Marché de niche

An abandoned chateau in France by Le Luxographe
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'How I'm still alive': Surviving Assad's prison cells

Omar al-Shogre describes his horrific ordeal in Syrian regime prisons, which taught him to treasure his humanity.
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