Crawford is a historian, publisher, and broadcaster. His new book is The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World Our modern world now has more borderlines than ever before in human ...

What are the lessons of the Borders (BGP) bankruptcy? Why couldn’t management – and a little marketing savvy ripped out of the fashion retail playbook – turn things around? Lesson No. 1: All Goliaths ...

It appears to be all over for the Borders bookselling chain. The company will be liquidated — meaning sold off in pieces — and almost 11,000 employees will lose their jobs. The chain's 400 remaining ...

John Washington’s compelling new book lays out the case for abolishing the hellish idea of the border. View of the US-Mexico border wall in Otay Mesa, California, 2021. Since 1995, the countries in ...

Borders is closing after failing to find a buyer that wants to run the bookstore chain. The bankrupt firm will be liquidated. Some stores will close as soon as Friday. Borders is going into ...

Borders have turned the American Southwest, the Mediterranean, and countless other areas of our world into unnecessary graveyards for migrants. It’s time for a new way. A boy takes part in a protest ...

In northern Vermont in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, where I grew up in a town whose name was French but where everyone spoke English, the nearby Canadian border was not imposing. Dirt roads ...

With up to three billion people expected to be displaced by the effects of global warming by the end of the century, should it lead to a shift in the way we think about national borders, asks Gaia ...

To paraphrase Rousseau, man is born free, yet everywhere he is caged. Barbed-wire, concrete walls, and gun-toting guards confine people to the nation-state of their birth. But why? The argument for ...

Online grocery is booming right now. Louis Borders, whose dotcom-era grocery business went up in flames in 2001, has resurfaced with a new grocery company just in the nick of time. Louis Borders is ...

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Why a brave Democrat should make the case for vastly expanding immigration. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist The internet expands the bounds of acceptable discourse, so ideas considered out of ...