Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of
Bookin' It
A piece of news that I'm excited about, personally and professionally: I'll be spending the next year writing a book on beauty, to be published…
Diner Forty Niner
There may have been gold in "them thar hills," but there wasn't much to eat
Dogshit Orgasm
From Cat Piss to Alaskan Thunderfuck, marijuana strains have strange names; here’s why we’re in for more.
Dissecting the Frog
Sometimes the only difference between trolling and corporate linkbait is the advertising revenue
Sunday Reading
How to Conquer Pain Once and For All by Attacking the Source and Do It, to sign documents that you don t understand, and these are no exception
On POTUS's Benign Sexism
The act of observation changes that which is being observed. Which, when you're the attorney general of California, is problematic.
Bully Meets World
Programs and therapies can help prevent bullying, but they don't address the root causes of schoolyard domination. A review of Emily Bazelon's anti-bullying manifesto Sticks and Stones.
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
Beard braids, Blue Screen of Death nail polish, the neo-Nazi Estee Lauder boycott, and more.
Junk Drawer
An interview with Jenny Odell, graphic artist and self-described "satellite tourist", who turns images from Google Earth, Street View and Image Search into beautiful and unsettling collages of de-contextualized objects.
Wearing Stigma
Playing by the fashion rules means you've won the game of stigma management.
National Disgrace
The nearly 700,000 marijuana possession arrests a year in the U.S. are the same kind of scandal as Love Canal or the Ford Pinto
Weed Launch Screening @ Spectacle
Join Spectacle and the New Inquiry in celebration of TNI’s new Weed issue with a screening of a surprise, unannounced movie. TNI Vol. 15: Weed takes…
Clear Satire
The glass is always half full, and we always round up.
TNI Vol. 15 Editorial Note: The National Conversation
America is going to have to be as stoned as hell for the national conversation about weed.
Sunday Reading
Adapted for families, sunday-schools, lending libraries, etc. Amongst the Contributors to its pages are evangelical Clergymen, Ministers, and esteemed Christian Writers.
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