023 | Selda Shamloo | When your passport locks you in
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Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport. For many of us, our passport is a symbol of our wanderlust, a badge of our freedom. It’
022 | Ian Dunt | Liberalism is in a fight for its life
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If there is one political philosophy that allows our global lives to exist, it’s liberalism. There is no freedom of movement without freedom. There is no belonging to multiple tribes if the individual does not supersede the collective. There is no room for our weird, compound identities if we’
021 | Amanda Bates | The Black expat
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People of all kinds – yes, people of color too – go abroad to live, love and learn. They study a language, they follow a partner, they go just for the heck of it or for a midlife crisis. Sometimes, they flee war or poverty, but not usually. Tired of not seeing
020 | Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia | Why every child should spend a year abroad
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Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more children – dare we say, to all children? – could change not just them, but the world. Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia
019 | Peter Gumbel | Citizens of everywhere, a legacy of WWII
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When they narrowly escaped the Third Reich and found refuge in Britain, Peter Gumbel’s parents and grandparents cast off their German Jewish heritage to become a perfectly British family. Two generations later, deeply unsettled by Brexit, Gumbel reaches out to Germany again in search of a new passport – and
018 | Reasons to hope (a 2020 review)
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Because if there's ever a moment for an absolutely not rational belief that things might be okay, it's surely the new year. (This bonus episode is a compilation of hopeful moments in the first two short seasons of Borderline. Yes, I could find some.) Music by
017 | Reza Pakravan | How to become an explorer
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Reza Pakravan has every kid'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 of Africa, across areas any foreign ministry generally tells you to keep clear
016 | Ian Bremmer | The world in 2021
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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 the geopolitics we can expect in 2021, with Eurasia Group founder and president Ian Bremmer.
