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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jackb and magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. You can learn a lot about an empire by studying its edges and borderlands.

In the Arctic, North America and Asia, the United States and Russia,

almost touch across the Bering Strait.

The region, so far away from national centers of power, is, in reality, a critical and complex node in global geopolitics and ecology alike.

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