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Virginia Valencia earns US$12 an hour in the cafeteria at Tesla Motors Inc. headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where she serves breakfast to the staff and billionaire co-founder Elon Musk. He prefers juice to coffee, she said. After work, the single...

How Vladimir Putin’s desperate hold on power is fuelling the next revolution by Michael Petrou Illustration by Adrian Lee I. In late April, the forests surrounding Pikalyovo, an industrial city 250 km east of St. Petersburg, are still blanketed...

The Boston Bombers' ties to Chechnya and Dagestan must come to light if we're ever going to get to the bottom of "why" they did it. This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation. "Proud to be from Chechnya, I miss my homeland. #chechnyanpower...

The Klondike Gold Rush, Prohibition and the Canadian Pacific Railway — these are just a few of the historical milestones intricately woven into the fabric of British Columbia’s hotel landscape. According to Will Woods, founder and chief storyteller at...

A quaint white picket fence surrounded the two clapboard buildings of the Illinois Central Railroad’s Kenwood Station. These were located at Mason (47th) Street near the lake, and the above image was taken about 1877. -University of Chicago Special Collections...