Reasons to hope (a 2020 review)
To close out Borderline's first calendar year, which will I hope not soon be matched in hardship and heartbreak, I looked back through the first 17 episodes to pick out moments of hope for what lays a...
29 Dec 20209min
How to become an explorer, with Reza Pakravan
Reza Pakravan has everyone's dream job title – explorer. He just released on Amazon Prime, his latest travel series "The World's Most Dangerous Borders" for which he traveled uninterrupted the width o...
18 Dec 202030min
The world in 2021, with Ian Bremmer
A continued pandemic and fresh vaccines, a new US president with old problems, China triumphant and mistrusted, Brexit done at last, and global institutions on the fritz... Let's take a world tour of ...
11 Dec 202035min
"Shame stops you from trying" with Marcela Kunova
"The hostility that you feel, one of the purposes is to make you feel ashamed and to hinder you, to make sure you don't act, or you don't aspire, or you don't fight back." Marcela Kunova has been an i...
19 Nov 202038min
Americans abroad after Trump, with Sarah Browne, Geoffrey Cain & Lauren Tormey
What was it like being an American abroad during the Trump years? How do they feel about the election and the years ahead? Is it time to go back and give back? This week, I brought together three Amer...
9 Nov 202044min
🇺🇸 An election night invitation 🗳 (This is not an episode)
Join me on November 3rd (and 4th) to watch US election results come in together. Or not come in. Bring your own pizza. Sign up here to receive the call link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-border...
1 Nov 20202min
Are travel restrictions effective against Covid-19?
If we all can't travel or see loved ones across borders, please tell me at least it’s working. In May, I found myself in tears when the British government decided to impose quarantines on anyone retur...
27 Okt 202025min
"I don't know what you are," with Ferdous al-Faruque
Why do we feel the need to put people into boxes, to assign categories in order to decipher them? And what happens to those who fit in many... and none at all? I discussed this and other things with F...
15 Okt 202028min
