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

Yesterday, Borders (BGPIQ) finally gave up. After not finding a buyer, the financially-strapped bookstore chain decided to close. The fire sale could happen as soon as Friday. The economic climate and ...

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 ...

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 ...