J. Hoberman Polish Compassion Green Border is the filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s latest confrontation with her country’s brutal history. June 20, 2024
Gaby Del Valle Death and Detention on the Texas Border As Joe Biden and Greg Abbott escalate their standoff over border enforcement, migrants find themselves caught in the middle. May 5, 2024
Caroline Tracey Stopping the Old Rio Grande In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today. January 11, 2024
Willa Glickman ‘People Are Not a Crisis’ Eric Adams has insisted that his administration is doing its best to house New York’s asylum seekers, but the city’s shortage of shelter space is the result of political choices. July 23, 2023
Yasmine El Rashidi Stories Adrift The crux of Netflix’s melodrama The Swimmers, a biopic of two Syrian refugees who pursued Olympic stardom, is everything it leaves unsaid. May 9, 2023
Khaled Mattawa The River Four weeks on a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea. February 6, 2023
Frederic Wehrey Libya’s Perfect Storm Climate change has brought a dangerous new dimension to the country’s political strife. December 3, 2022
Anjan Sundaram From Wars Abroad, to Peace at Home “As I’ve grown older, I’m more aware of the psychological risks we must take,” says the conflict-zone reporter. “Writing about my father represented such a psychological risk.” February 27, 2021
Anjan Sundaram No Direction Home My father chose to pursue a better life for our family through migration, without ever settling and putting down roots. Now, that is my inheritance. February 23, 2021
Anna Badkhen Chronicler of a World on the Move “Despite the immense amount of violence and loss I have witnessed, I remain interested in the miracle of survival, in what keeps us going.” January 9, 2021