The Tower and the Tarantula: Searching for a New Way Forward 24 Years after 9/11

A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.

Today marks the four-year anniversary of The Border Chronicle. We started on September 11, 2021, 20 years after the 9/11 attacks, because of the significance that day has had for the U.S. borderlands and our reporting. It’s incredible how quickly these four years have passed and that we, The Border Chronicle, are still here. In 2021, we didn’t know that…