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.
A Guy Named Frank
Being a weed dealer requires a mix of affability, cold calculation, and violence; at least until Walmart gets into the game
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 15
Dawdle on, brothers and sisters.
Sunday Reading
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Marijuanimals
Getting your pet high may seem like a "cool" thing to do, but you could land your pooch in the ER
Beauty Blogosphere 4.19.13
Barbie sans makeup, the cosmetics kit for curing eye chlamydia, Gaza hair rebels, and nipple tattoos.
Virality virus
Marketing professor Jonah Berger's book Contagious seeks to loose the social disease of word-of-mouth marketing
One Narrative Fits All
In the branded content from Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, we find a template for women's relationship with beauty that's just as rigid as the standard it's challenging.
Peccaminous Peckishness
Sailing from the Tropic of Cancer to the Delta of Venus shouldn't be done on an empty stomach
Spring Break Forever
Presenting The New Inquiry's first free supplement, a pdf collection of eight critical essays on Harmony Korine's Disneyland dystopia Spring Breakers.
This is 40?
Harmony Korine is pretty rad for a white dad
Fort Slaughterdale
Harmony Korine holds our legs for cinema's last keg stand
Bikini, Kill
Don't hate the slayer, hate the game
Booty Camp
A former KIDS kid laments bad girl banality
The Real Beach Lives of Miami
A young boy’s depraved journey into the heart of heterosexuality
High as Finance
All this coke, and not a credit card in sight
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