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.
Violent X
These are tinderbox days...
The World According to Modern Monetary Theory
Looking past money to the sovereign power that makes it valuable
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #135
On one level, ICC Witness #135 might be an effort to speak for the dead, which is a slightly different thing than speaking for the…
Teenage Dream
Now a feature film, Jon Savage's history of 20th century adolescence Teenage is a modern classic on kids and demographics. Savage talked with TNI co-founding editor Mary Borkowski on youth culture now and then
Austerity Abécédaire
scarcity | fr. austeros (gr.) | bitter, harsh, makes the tongue dry
Kenyan Somali, Somali in Kenya, Kenya in Somalia
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Decolonizing Israel
The BDS movement is enjoying success because even at home, Zionists are beginning to lose the PR battle
Unthinkable Tableaus
Why does Pieter Hugo's "Portraits of Reconciliation" make us “speechless”? Leave us with “no words”? Why might we find it “stunning”? “Powerful”? “Inspiring”?
Over Easy
Elite education may impoverish and indebt young women and do little to get them a job, but at least it makes their eggs valuable
Sunday Reading
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The Whitney Biennial for Angry Women
Since 1932, the Whitney Biennial has been a crib sheet for the market trends of contemporary art in the United States. These are the Cliffs Notes to the guide
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #69
ICC Witness Recalls Order to Evict Kikuyus: "When a convoy passed by, I heard Sammy Ruto saying that the results had been announced and ODM…
The 5-Minute Facial Workout, and the Placebo Effect
When you’re talking about a quality as difficult to articulate as loveliness, merely believing that something “works”—even if it's facial gymnastics—can be enough to lend you the light that you’re seeking.
Buying the Future
Financialization depends on a standardized product. What happens when it’s applied to people?
Reading the ICC Witness Project: (un)Witness #20, #22, #34
"Indicative of attempts to undermine the ICC process were the plethora of attacks against witnesses. This included intimidating, bribing, and killing them. The message being…
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