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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border but well within the militarized zone that abuts it. I was, in fact, atop the Baboquivari mountain range, a place sacred to the Tohono O’od...

NationofChange Maintaining instability in a world of inequality. Image Credit: Alonso Castillo/Reuters From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border but well within the militarized zone that abuts it. I was, in fact, atop the Baboquivari mountain range, a place sacred to the Tohono O’odham, the Native American people who have inhabited this land for thousands of years. At that moment, however, I couldn’t see a single Border Patrol agent or any sign of wha...

Imagine a World Without Borders Image by japatino/Getty Images Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand. For decades, Todd Miller has reported on borders and the conflicts they create. In his new book, Build Bridges, Not Walls , Miller invites us to envision a borderless world, one better-equipped for our collective survival. In this excerpt, he describes the militarized U.S.-Mexico border and considers recent history, when the border was more permeable and life on both sides more i...

A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’ Todd Miller © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock I’ll never forget Giovanni’s blistered feet as an EMT attended to him on the Mexico side of the US-Mexican border in Sasabe, a remote desert town. On the back of one foot, his skin had been rubbed away and the tender, reddish, underlying tissue exposed. One toenail had completely ripped off. Giovanni, who was from a small Guatemalan town near the Salvadorean border, had just spent days walking through the ...

a 16-fold increase ‘Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign received three times more campaign contributions from the border industry than did Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock ‘Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign received three times more campaign contributions from the border industry than did Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock Mon 19 Apr 2021 06.21 EDT Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 06.22 EDT I’ll never forget Giovanni’s blistered feet as an EMT attended to him on the Mexico side of...