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.
Feeding Animosity
Hell is eating with other people
Cold Cases
A review of Robert Kolker's Lost Girls
Index of Prominent White Male Characters in Heavily Serialized Dramatic Television, United States
Green money, blonde wife.
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 19
I’m getting to more places and I’m getting more accomplished, but what am I giving up? I think too much.
Enjoy the Rules
A review of Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?
Invisible architecture
Despite apparent affinities, cinema's kissing cousin is not TV but the hotel.
Temple of Womb
India’s mid-1970s state of emergency and its ghoulish “family planning camps” inadvertently spawned a particular kind of horror film, and the underground infrastructure to match
Selling Roots
Can DNA tests really tell us anything about our ethnic identity?
Sunday Reading
Special Minnesota Nice Version.
LinkedOut
Social media investigations of potential hires automatically put employers on the wrong side of the law.
Prescription Strike
The CIA’s use of vaccine programs as cover for covert operations in Pakistan has endangered aid workers and undermined the fight against polio
The Inn Crowd
Bad food and lousy beds didn't keep early American taverns from turning a tidy profit
Labor Pains
When Western women rent other women’s wombs to carry their children, it undermines the unifying potential of the reproductive commons
Interiors - Wendy and Lucy
Wendy becomes immobilized after she loses her car, and the Walgreens parking lot becomes an anchor for the film
Fjordian Slip
The second volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s epic exploration of the everyday, in all its glorious meaninglessness
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