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Egypt dominates a viral thread of countries travelers swear they'll never revisit. Here's why — and what the defenders say.

Imports-to-GDP doesn't measure trade balance — it measures openness. Here's what the 50% line really separates.

Factories, buildings, trains, power grids — Siemens is everywhere and nearly invisible. A tour of the industrial giant most people can't explain.

Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. How early internet subculture formed, where it lived, and whether it survived.

One in three new GitHub developers now comes from a country outside 2020's top ten. What that shift means for open source.

A hand, a mouth, forward motion: what open-bin snacking at Mahane Yehuda reveals about norms nobody enforces anymore.

Penicillin in Bangkok, paracetamol in London, Adderall at customs. What actually goes in the note on your phone?

Sixty-three defectors reached South Korea this year — every one through a third country. Here's what the DMZ, China, Russia, and sea routes really ...