Old Line

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Time to redraw our maps, says global strategist Parag Khanna, author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. Not only are Donald Trump's idea of a border wall and his and Bernie Sanders's damning of globalization older than old, Khanna says, but "almost every syllable that you hear in the populist discourse is wrong." The map lines we need to be looking at are not national and local borders but transport and transportation lines, resource lines ~ lines of connection, not separation. And whatever lines are drawn now must take our changing climate and its repercussions into account: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/29/six-maps-that-will-make-you-rethink-the-world/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_6-maps-950a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory