As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.
Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
Reflections from a novelist who takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center
An interview with Lauren Berlant
The first issue in our newsletter model
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
By Joy Lisi Rankin
By Chris ChoGlueck
By Caroline Cook
By Erica Eisen
By Jess Libow
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book about sex under socialism obstructs demands for the impossible
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
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.
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
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.
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
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.
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks