State borders in the United States have long been treated as fixed lines on a map, rarely questioned and even more rarely ...

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Migrants in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, in late March 2021. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty The jagged shoreline of the island of Lesbos, Greece, which runs into the Aegean ...

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 ...