015 | Marcela Kunova | "Shame stops you from trying"
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"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 [https://twitter.com/MarcelaKunova] is the
014 | Americans abroad after Trump
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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 American expats to talk about politics, home, what was broken and what
013 | Are travel restrictions effective against Covid-19?
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In May, I found myself in tears when the British government decided to impose quarantines on anyone returning from France. That was the last straw. How dare they close *my* border? Did it even serve a purpose? When in doubt, go to the library. I turned to science to find
012 | Ferdous al-Faruque | "I don't know what you are"
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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 Ferdous "Danny" al-Faruque, a third-culture kid all grown up.
011 | Luke McGee | Will Brexit ever end?
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Now the EU and UK have less than two months to agree a free trade deal or face a cliff edge. And then, are we done? I caught up with CNN journalist Luke McGee, who’s roamed the halls of power in Brussels and Westminster for years now, to understand
010 | Lynn Chouman | Why Lebanon is fed up with bearing up
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Stop praising us for our resilience, says this Lebanese expat.
009 | Janet Matta | What do we owe to the places we're from?
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Welcome to a new series of intimate conversations with global citizens, who talk about their identity, their choices and what home even means. This week, Janet Matta, an American working mom from Seattle, talks about leaving the United States and continuing a long American tradition – leaving your country to make
008 | Wade Davis | The end of the American century
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“Covid-19 revealed the tatters of the American image,” Canadian anthropologist, author and National Geographic explorer Wade Davis wrote in a blockbuster essay this summer. "The unraveling of America" hit a raw nerve. He joins Borderline to discuss the grandeur and decadence of the United States, and what comes
