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GEOPOLITICS

🇬🇱 Why does Trump want to buy Greenland?

Greenland’s push to loosen Danish ties has sparked U.S. interest—and a geopolitical tug-of-war with global implications for resources, trade, and sovereignty.

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INTERNET CULTURE

🤖 Exploring artificial intimacy

AI has already become indispensable for many. With this app, it can also be a friend—or, um, an intimate partner?!

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GLOBAL MOBILITY

🏠 The existential crisis all immigrants face

When home is not a place, but a perpetual negotiation between memory, fractured identities, and the fragility of feeling unmoored.

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TRAVEL TIPS

🇫🇷 Exploring China’s $1 billion copy of Paris

A Frenchman rediscovers his hometown—on an entirely different continent. Why did China build a fake version of the French capital?

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NOMAD LIFESTYLE

❤️ How to date a nomad

Borderless love is often airport reunions, borrowed apartments, and too little time. What happens when someone wants more?

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