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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Features

A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye

By Roqayah ChamsedinneDecember 9, 2024
a dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes
Essays & Reviews

Health Equity Capture

By Marquisele MercedesNovember 27, 2024
How the weight-loss industry Uses Black celebrity in the Ozempic era
Essays & Reviews

Seoul to Squeeze

By James ConstantOctober 30, 2024
Speculative capital will soon destroy one of the South Korean capital’s most vibrant and diverse working-class neighborhoods.
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Features

Whose Garbage Becomes The Archive? - an interview with Eunsong Kim

By Danielle WuOctober 24, 2024
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim uses primary documents to reveal the true costs of American art and the instutions built in its name.
Dispatch

Counter-mapping Complicity

By Filistin İçin Bin Genç, Charlotte Rose and Elia El KhazenOctober 15, 2024
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
Features

One Year

By Palestinian Youth MovementOctober 7, 2024
October 7, 2024—Today, we can expect a parade of treacly sycophantism, brazen sociopathy, and humanist admonishment. They write for their mark, the reader they assume…
Features

World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili

By Jake RommOctober 2, 2024
A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.
Essays & Reviews

Some Country for Some Women

By Kim Hew-LowSeptember 26, 2024
As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Essays & Reviews

Tiktok LLM

By Eleanor SternJune 24, 2024
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Essays & Reviews

The Sentimentality of Evil

By Sari EdelsteinJune 20, 2024
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
Features

The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence

By Taylor MillerJune 11, 2024
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
Features

Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir

By TNIJune 3, 2024
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
Features

Care: The Highest Form of Capitalism

By Angelica Castro-MendozaMay 26, 2024
Premilla Nadasen’s latest book covers America's care economy, its carceral legacy, and the potential for intervention in systems of exploitation.
Features

“Set the terms of your struggle:” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks

By New York War CrimesMay 16, 2024
Cal Poly Humboldt rapidly developed into the militant front of the campus Palestinian liberation movement. After repelling a police assault during their occupation of Siemens Hall—renamed Intifada Hall—the commune claimed much of the campus. We spoke to two participants about their efforts.
Dispatch

FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA

By The People of Hind's HallMay 10, 2024
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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