The conspicuous presence of barbed wire in Australian immigration detention centres, such as Rudd’s newly re-opened Curtin detention centre, is a reminder of the inhuman pedigree of these grim despair ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The United States has been fortifying its southern border against the “caravan” of migrants from Central American nations ...

Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, ...

Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...

Brad Penka can't say enough about barbed wire's winning of the West. Eli Reichman “Barbed wire was a lifesaver for this region,” says Brad Penka, president and curator of the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum ...

American troops without much to do are on the U.S.-Mexico border stringing concertina wire, a type of barbed wire manufactured in coils and often used to create an obstacle in war, to stop a caravan ...

After October’s Blue Ridge Fire devastated 13,694 acres in northern Orange County and into Chino Hills, another environmental hazard was revealed in the aftermath. After the fires were contained and ...

When conservation photographer Doug Gimesy moved to his property in the Otways in south-west Victoria last year, he saw something distressing — an eastern grey kangaroo tangled in a stretch of barbed ...