They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

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Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...