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Korea Under Ceasefire

By Minju BaeMay 27, 2025
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Essays & Reviews

How Can You Watch That Stuff?

By Vicky OsterweilJanuary 15, 2014
Mixed-martial-arts fighters take a terrible beating not only from each other but also from the UFC’s labor practices
The Austerity Kitchen

Varsity Voracity

By Christine BaumgarthuberJanuary 14, 2014
Higher learning and higher caloric intake have long gone hand in hand
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Grammar Lessons

By Brandon HarrisJanuary 14, 2014
Despite all odds and with no obvious financial incentives, a few directors still make movies that seek to re-imagine the form
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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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South/South

And Other Weary Geographies

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJanuary 13, 2014
Is this how you "do" a book announcement?
News

Travel and Anti-Travel @ Mansion 1/14

By The New InquiryJanuary 13, 2014
  An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will read from two forthcoming…
Essays & Reviews

Downward-Facing Drones

By Charlotte ShaneJanuary 13, 2014
For all the flexibility of mind and spirit it’s supposed to bestow, yoga in America is a resolutely orthodox endeavor
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Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyJanuary 12, 2014
Sunday Reading is downstream from itself.
Zunguzungu

Freedom Industry

By Aaron BadyJanuary 11, 2014
We have more questions. But Freedom means we're done.
News

Endnotes 3 Release Party @ 16 Beaver 1/17

By The New InquiryJanuary 10, 2014
 To celebrate the release of our third issue, "Gender, Race, Class and other Misfortunes", Endnotes will hold an event in New York on January 17th…
Essays & Reviews

Little Boxes on a Hillside

By Amanda ShapiroJanuary 10, 2014
Better-designed cities will make people happier — those who get to live in them, at least
Essays & Reviews

No Contest

By Tomas RiosJanuary 9, 2014
When sports is all about the money, every call is a chance to make a buck
Zunguzungu

The American Studies Association Goes to Politics

By Aaron BadyJanuary 8, 2014
Americans dislike and despise politics and politicians, of course.
Features

Vol. 24 Editors' Note: War by Other Means

By The New InquiryJanuary 8, 2014
Sports lends itself to abstraction. A whole baseball game gracefully nestles into a box score; football and basketball playbooks look like charts for a free-jazz board game...
Socialism and/or Barbarism

Able to be turned on, and that is it

By Evan Calder WilliamsJanuary 7, 2014
They never tune the healing beds to give the Elysians syphilis.
Essays & Reviews

Sewing Dissent

By Christine BaumgarthuberJanuary 7, 2014
A generation beleaguered by insecurity has lifted thimble-covered middle fingers to the “new normal”

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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
Uncategorized

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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