Border Fetish

Border Fetish

WIB politics April 27, 2018

At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what seemed to be a... Read more
L’Ère des Murs
Quand j’ai parlé pour la première fois aux trois Honduriens dans la gare de la ville de Tenosique au Sud du Mexique, je n’avais aucune idée qu’il s’agissait de réfugiés climatiques. Nous étions à 30km de la frontière avec le Guatemala, dans une gare de triage où les réfugiés... Read more
The Era of Walls

The Era of Walls

WIB politics December 8, 2017

When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees often congregated to... Read more
The West’s Best Fighter Jets, Together in Virginia
The Atlantic Trident ’17 exercise, held from April 12 to 28, 2017 at Joint Base Langley-Eustice in Virginia, included a “Blue Air” force of U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors of the 1st Fighter Wing and F-35 Lightning IIs from Eglin Air Force Base, Typhoons of the Royal Air Force... Read more