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+WITNESS 8,000 years of Istanbul history in our summer web carnival+

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With/out borders

Border disputes never made sense to me. Living all over the world gave me a free floating perception of the world. [...]

Great White People Book Club

Global thinkers must navigate and find a way to bridge worlds that might make only a sinister kind of sense. [...]

Gender bending with James Chartrand

James Chartrand is head of the web design and copywriting outfit Men With Pens — and he’s a woman. [...]

Supraculture: August newsletter

Name-calling and finding our true neighborhood. Hints for a soundtrack of placelessness. A great new voice exploring the existential anxiety of being people like us. [...]

Running from the pack

Here’s my idea of travel torture: Sabotaging a holiday by overpaying someone to impose an itinerary on me. [...]

Expat. Immigrant. Assimilant.

This American resident of Istanbul with Turkish citizenship may be fluent in Turkish but she can’t describe herself in any language. [...]

Cool: July newsletter

How we imagine our global viewpoint is created. The continuity (or ooh, disconnect!) of the way we behave. Track game-changing rock star brainiacs. [...]

Honor in defeat

Can there be honor in defeat? How does your culture define national honor? [...]

Buff culture

When an expat from America’s conservative “Bible Belt” moves to Europe she faces a liberal culture of nakedness. [...]

Scots and risky

Risk-taking is in the blood of this Scot-American woman: bear wrestlers, sword swallowers. What role does risk play in the way you experience the world? [...]