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Exporting the Revolution

By Bassem SaadFebruary 16, 2023
In memory of Mahsa Amini (1999-2022), Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011), and Sarah Hegazi (1989-2020)
Features

Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest!

By Anna Aguiar KosickiFebruary 28, 2023
An excerpt
Features

The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part III)

By Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-BoltonDecember 23, 2022
This piece has been adapted from Covid Year Three, an episode of Death Panel released earlier this month. It presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end…
Features

The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part II)

By Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-BoltonDecember 22, 2022
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022 (Part II)
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part 1)

By Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-BoltonDecember 21, 2022
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022
Features

Centrifugal Women

By Gabriel FineDecember 6, 2022
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
Features

Intentions

By Lauren BerlantOctober 25, 2022
An excerpt from On the Inconvenience of Other People (2022)
Features

SURPLUS

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantOctober 18, 2022
Excerpted from Health Communism (2022)
Shines Like Gold

Your future sex robot

By imp kerrOctober 14, 2022
Presumably, most people want to improve their morality because this would benefit others, but is this in fact their primary motivation?
Shines Like Gold

the idea that language is not tuned to the world

By imp kerrOctober 3, 2022
The importance of skin area and gender in ticklishness
Shines Like Gold

constipated scorpions

By imp kerrSeptember 19, 2022
Refreezing Earth's poles feasible and cheap
Shines Like Gold

The Perception of Time in Humans, Brains, and Machines

By imp kerrSeptember 9, 2022
More Than Half Of All Bitcoin Trades Are Fake
Essays & Reviews

Baby Heists

By Andrew LeeAugust 23, 2022
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Features

Six years (and counting) of circlusion

By Sophie Lewis and Bini AdamczakAugust 22, 2022
It gives me great pleasure, as well as relief, that The New Inquiry has agreed to republish this landmark essay. For a while now, strangers…
Essays & Reviews

Mall Gothic

By Anna Aguiar KosickiAugust 18, 2022
White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest
Features

Not Feeling It

By Charlie Markbreiter and Xine YaoAugust 16, 2022
An interview with Xine Yao on how, and which, feelings are racialized

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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 Liz KinnamonJune 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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