Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Media is Better Police
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Police don’t kill people either.
Sex on Inauguration Night
It’s hard not to see the sex between them, watching the Obamas dancing against a blue sea of heads gazing up in the darkness. It makes me woozy to imagine a relationship that is still on the upslope 20 years later.
Wikipedia Politics
In Wikipedia’s earnest and well-intentioned struggle with its own ineluctably political nature, we may be seeing how an online community begins to think like a state.
Sunday Reading
Bint Battuta: Spanish anarchists in the Welsh valleys Afro-Brazilian Mosques in West Africa A conversation with filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi about the Palestine Film Unit and…
Chris Marker Retrospective @ Light Industry 8/26
As a tribute to Chris Marker, who passed away last month, Light Industry is hosting a free, all-day screening of his films, with introductory remarks…
The Way to Wealth
No dads wiser than the nation's founding fathers, as this bit of advice from Benjamin Franklin makes plain
Coming Out of the Coffin
Endlessly secretive, Stoker is the great codifier, the author who dared not speak his own name.
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
Phyllis Diller, what a runner looks like, the newest victims of eating disorders, and the oldest bra in the world.
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
In her online columns for Vice, ex-beauty editor Cat Marnell is set to self-destruct, saving her readers the trouble. But is the future we can’t imagine for her the perfect desire we yearn for ourselves? We can have it and long for it at the same time
Trigger Warning Week
A guest-post from Laurie Penny: "Rape. From the Latin, 'rapere,' to take or snatch. "
Blind Ambition
The sightless bell-ringer of the Scottish burg of Dumfries pursued a vision of industry that left his fellow townspeople blinking with disbelief
Mike Thomsen's Levitate The Primate @ McNally Jackson 8/28
Join TNI & Friends Tuesday 7pm at McNally Jackson Books for a reading from featured contributor Mike Thomsen's new book Levitate The Primate: Handjobs, Internet…
Beach Body Bingo (and Me on the Today Show)
My thighs, and four million people.
Hard Blows
Camille Paglia’s greatest merit as a critic is the fact that her literary analysis can double as self-help.
Queer, Interrupted
Cops have no business telling queer youth “it gets better” while they protect the regime that makes it worse. Better to bash back than to wait.
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