Korea Under Ceasefire
The impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol occurred under the shadow of ongoing US occupation of South Korea
Beauty Blogosphere 11.30.12
Post-Soviet beauty queens, face transplants, the granddad fashion model, and Spanx Watch 2012.
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Landscape of the Bleeding Crowd
The signs I saw around the necks of many young men yesterday said: 'WANTED, A Decent Job.'
Repast as Prelude
A helping of political realism served up by an Elizabethan luminary
The Flies That Bind
On at least the third death of Salvagepunk, and with it we notice that we’re not alone
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi and Aaron Bady Join TNI's Editorial Board
We're delighted to announce that bloggers Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (South/South) and Aaron Bady (Zunguzungu) have joined The New Inquiry's editorial team as Editors at Large. Maryam…
Devastation in Meatspace
The current assault on Gaza is an early test of social media’s ability to understand and mediate war within a Western society
Yer Cheatin' Heart: Beauty and Infidelity
There is a connection between the two—but it's not what you think.
Everyday schadenfreude
Would any self-respecting person even use social media in the first place?
Hi Haters!
The metaphor of microfame and the structure of feeling of social-media use
Growing Up TV
The last role of a child star is always collapse
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
The Rumpus, The Millions, HTMLGIANT, Bomb Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Gigantic and The New Inquiry presents: Let's Make a Movie! November 29th,…
Sunday Reading
Today only, with extra Sunday.
Kippers for Breakfast
Guest post by J. Temperance: How Supertramp and Baudrillard reached similar conclusions about the land of plenty
The Laughing Indian
Sherman Alexie trades the stoic Indian stereotype for another, but do his jokes tickle or unsettle?
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