In the dominant U.S. political establishment prioritizing 'foreign' or global policy over domestic concerns is nearly sacrilegious, and that is a main reason why executive privilege on climate treaties gets buried or resurrected as political expediency allows.
I know a boy named David. When you yell at him, he doesn't look you in the eyes and he shrugs his shoulders. It used to render me speechless with frustration. It wasn’t until I was on the other end of an arbitrary order that I realized what my students must really feel.
...that tear in the discourse shows us the limit point of dads as master ideology; the one thing it can’t actually justify is murdering your own kid, and a 16 year old American kid is President’s Obama’s child.
"We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy. My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity" -- closing paragraph of Ch. 5, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Someday quantum computers will sift through unprecedented volumes of information and solve processing problems once thought intractable. At present, the one in front of me can factor the number fifteen.
The virality of political memes this campaign season has had little to do with political messaging and more to do with posturing and identity projection
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
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.
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 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.