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  • Rivers, Free Cities, And Condominiums

    In some parts of the world you can be in two countries simultaneously. The section of the Moselle river that follows much of the border between Luxembourg and Germany isn’t owned by either country, nor is it divided along the middle—instead it is shared by both sovereign nations. The border is more of a permeable…

  • Discovering the Green Line

    In kindergarten at my Jewish elementary school, my class took a “trip to Israel.” Our miniature chairs were arranged in two columns split by an aisle, and a TV was rolled in front of them, prompting hushed excitement. The lights were dimmed; a tape was slid into the VCR, and a blue sky dotted with…