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The border killing fields separating India and Bangladesh

On the night of May 31, near Sadipur in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel found a section of the border fence cut open. On the far side stood more than a dozen people, among them women and children, driven to the spot by India’s Border Security

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Can digital sovereignty survive an open trading system?

In the mid-19th century, the expansion of the European railway was hobbled by a paranoid approach to sovereignty: the battle of the gauges. Nations built incompatible track widths to ensure that a neighbor's rolling stock, and its armies, could not cross their borders. This

How tall and short trees can coexist in old growth forests

Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays and rendering the shaded space around them inhospitable to shorter trees below. In this stem exclusion phase of forest succession, the shorter trees