The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The problem's name is God.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.