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The Trump administration is currently building a border fence in Whatcom County, Washington where I lived for most of the last decade. In order to put this in perspective, first let’s look at a few indicators. I am using a few of my favorites, the Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit, Press Freedom Index …
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As I have described in previous posts, I have been looking at outliers for open border policy around the world. Today I did a lot of work on it, improved my data, and now have a database of 208 borders in the world, with 124 different countries represented. Let’s dig into the data. To refresh, …
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