It’s scandal after scandal for one of Britain’s biggest ministries and an obstacle course for immigrants forced to encounter it. Why is the Home Office like this? Daniel Trilling spent six months investigating.

Hormones, acne, heartbreak… and figuring out what country you even belong to. Adolescence is even trickier when you’re a global kid.

What would it take to create on a planetary level the same fuzzy feelings people have for their country? Let’s start with taxes…

America may be back, but the world wasn’t waiting.

Borders are an extension of the colonial project and enforced to keep the people who have built rich countries’ wealth from accessing it, argues author and activist Leah Cowan.

Should rich nations be vaccinating their young people when 19 countries still haven’t seen a single jab?

Nationalist or globalist? It may come down to psychological health.

International travel restrictions stop a lot more than holidays. Millions have been separated from loved ones abroad for a year or more.

Asad Husein went from a Kenyan refugee camp to Princeton University. His story is a miracle of grit and luck. It didn’t have to be that hard.

A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization.

Migrant women are at a higher risk of violence and abuse, often because of the State itself.

Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport.

Liberalism – a belief in the primacy of individual liberty – has built modern democracies. Now it’s in an existential crisis, caught between rising authoritarianism and identity politics. I look back and ahead for liberals with British political journalist Ian Dunt.

Black people live abroad too. You wouldn’t know it from a lot of the expat narrative out there. Amanda Bates is changing that.

The most transformative gift you can give a young person? Pushing them out of the nest to learn empathy, adaptability and a foreign language.

Two generations ago, his family fled Germany and became model Britons. Now, orphaned by Brexit, Peter Gumbel reaches back to Europe in search of a new passport – and a reckoning with history.

Because if there's ever a moment for an absolutely not rational belief that things might be okay, it's surely the new year.

Reza Pakravan has everyone's dream job title – explorer. He just released on Amazon Prime his latest travel series "The World's Most Dangerous Borders." How did he do it?

A continued pandemic and fresh vaccines, a new US president with old problems, China triumphant and mistrusted, Brexit done at last, and global institutions on the fritz. Anything else?

"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."

Three expats reflect on politics, home, what was broken and what remains.

Join me on November 3rd (and 4th) to watch US election results come in together. Or not come in. Bring your own pizza. Sign up here to receive the call link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-very-borderline-election-night-tickets-127128864857

If we all can't travel or see loved ones across borders, please tell me at least it’s working.

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?

It’s been Groundhog Day since 2016. 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 Luke McGee, a journalist at CNN, on the state of Brexit.