Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Vapor Eyes
E-cigarettes are social consumption, not private vice. They keep us addicted not so much to nicotine as to each other
Sunday Reading
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The Art of the Interview: Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou talks with Dave Chappelle about creativity, celebrity, and cultural politics.
The Inner Qualities of Darkness
To struggle with one’s blurred vision as you leave the comfort of a lit place for a sea-like unknown is both the great fear and the great imperative.
Going Out: No Tomorrows
The joke belongs to contested time, those few hours past dawn
The Anxieties of Big Data
What does the lived reality of big data feel like?
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
You're Right, I Didn't Eat That
Guest blogger Alana Massey on thinness and the illusion of being carefree: "My getting up to run eight miles the morning after sleeping together is admirable in the beginning but becomes frustrating when it means he almost always wakes up alone."
Variations on a Theme: Compromises With Tyranny
That comrade is now useless as an operative. He's been exposed. That medal is a shackle.
Cardinal Sins
53. Brought hot chicken soup on a tray to the bedridden, maybe
The Art of the Rebuttal: Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof responds to critics demanding the class of 2014 grow up and listen to Condoleezza Rice
Antiporn Land
Antiporn activists target the medium rather than the economic structures that make it profitable
Sunday Reading
Are we the baddies?
The Art of Faking It: St. Vincent
St Vincent outcreeps Steve Albini with a terrifying cover of Kerosene
Lonely Unknown
Did David Chase Explain the Ending of the Sopranos?
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
Liquid Border
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
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.
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Border Theories
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.
Soft Borders
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Operation Streamline
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.
In the Water
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
Cross-Border Operations
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks