Border walls are going up globally at a dizzying pace — but history teaches us that walls don’t work

Stringer/Getty Images U.S President Donald Trump is still trying to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico. Throughout history, countless walls were built to keep out enemies such as the Great Wall and Hadrian’s Wall. Border walls typically bring an increase in violence and instability rather than security.   History teaches us […]

‘Twin Peaks’ Parts 3 and 4 Recap: A Dizzying Dale Cooper Triptych

Before watching the third part of the new, hardly-Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: The Return, I wondered whether after a hypnotically rambling 2-hour premiere, this new episode might restore the zippier, tongue-in-cheekier tone of the original. Perhaps, I thought, that first episode had served as a sort of landing pad back into the world people thought we’d return to. Turns out, that […]