The Path Is Made by Walking
The U.S. border today persists in its long habit of extending itself wherever it pleases.
Belén Fernández
Belén Fernández is an opinion columnist for Al Jazeera and the author most recently of The Darién Gap: A Reporter’s Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books blog, and Current Affairs, among other outlets.
Fortress Beirut
August 19
The new U.S. embassy in Lebanon is one hundred thousand tons of diplomacy.
Deterrence Theory
April 16, 2025
So much for “keeping Americans safe.”
Treacherous Passage
March 10, 2025
A microcosm of imperial hypocrisy and lethal inequality, the Darién Gap is the world.
Cities of Night
In 2009, the American economist Paul Romer took to the prestigious forum of the TED Talks (that would be “technology, entertainment, design,” for you unfortunate creative-class have-nots) to explain how to solve world poverty. Where old-economy governments once sowed ...