No Man’s Land
Lying outside either state’s claims to sovereignty, the border zone both challenges and defines the legal conception of the state.
The Will to Wall
What is the work that walls do in a world of staggering inequality?
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
Cardinal Sins
53. Brought hot chicken soup on a tray to the bedridden, maybe
Insuring the Dead
Inside the business of corpse-repatriation insurance
The Magnetic North
Female clairvoyants in the 19th century used their powers to traverse class as well as distance
Philosophers of Babel
The Dictionary of Untranslatables offers proof that ideas like “democracy,” “revolution,” “politics,” and even “existence” translate easily from County Cork to Kyiv
Vol. 28 Editors’ Note: Borders
Borders hold the power to transform the motives and consequences of our lives.