AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
In Solidarity
(Nov. 8, 1986 – Jan. 11, 2013)
Sunday Reading
The greatest gift they'll get this week is life...Where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow...Do they know it's Sunday at all?
Private Life Drama
Soviet writer Andrei Platonov’s Happy Moscow finds the shortcomings of socialism not in its crushing the individual spirit but timidly preserving it.
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
Tattooed ladies, the apocryphal plot to assassinate a former Ukraine official with her makeup, women fired for being just too damn hot, and more.
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
Everybody talks about the weather —“but nobody ever does anything about it,” jokes Charles Dudley Warner. Everybody talks about it, Ulrike Meinhof repeats, but "we don’t.”
Not for Prophet
Who’s mad about The Weather Channel’s original programming?
Interview: Tizz Wall, Domme, Oakland
"In a playspace, not making eye contact can represent submission. Saying 'Don't look at me' is a subtle, effective way of establishing dominance."
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism
It is high time that Confessional Jounalists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Confessional Journalism with a manifesto of the tendency itself.
Chestnut Economics
When this staple food didn't roast on an open fire, it sparked an urge to increase profit and stoked flames of popular revolt
Blogs Round Up
A bi-weekly round up of updates from The New Inquiry's bloggers
When Lovers Die
Michael Haneke’s Amour isn’t an ironically titled film about entropy, acrimony, withering, or divorce. It's about storybook romance and true love. And just like true love, it's filled with violence, horror, and death.
TNI Vol. 12 Editorial Note: Hail or High Water
Everybody talks about the weather —“but nobody ever does anything about it,” jokes Charles Dudley Warner. Everybody talks about it, Ulrike Meinhof repeats, but "we don’t.”
How to Talk About the Weather
Eco-critc Ursula Heise on the narratives of climate change and the evolving challenges environmentalism faces in telling its story
Poet-Taster (1): James Arthur
Culinary verse to nourish you through the work week
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