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Shifting Borders
Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, reinforce borders. Perhaps the most urgent contemporary question is how we now imagine and conceptualize boundaries. And, as a result, how we think about community.
In this special issue are stories of postcolonial maps, of dissidents tracked in places of refuge, of migrants whose bodies become the borderline, and of frontier management outsourced by rich countries to much poorer ones.
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Technology
Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?
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Science & Health
Access to all human knowledge is at our fingertips. But we’re entering into a crisis of reason.
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Disinformation
Propaganda warfare is increasingly shaping narratives, policies and lives around the world.
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Oligarchy
Putin's Oligarchs: A year in the sanctioned lives of Russia’s richest men
Stunned by sanctions, Russia’s wealthiest families take drastic steps to survive
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The Big Idea
Age of Nostalgia
Infatuation with a mythologized history has overtaken communities, cultures, entire regions, sending society and identity into a fun-house mirror of nostalgic reflections. This special issue brings you stories of people finding solace in pasts imagined and grieving for futures foreclosed in a time of existential threats.
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