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.
The Real Lolita?
Sarah Weinman’s new book questions the responsibility of fiction to fact
Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma
By Kate Sheppard
The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing
By Sam Muka
How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Dr. Jane C. Wright and the Making of Modern Oncology
By Victoria Forster and Elizabeth Wayne
Living Chess
By Robert Davis
Cell Culture and Science Culture
By Alicia Puglionesi
Bail Bloc 2.0
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail—and ICE.
Fun With Agamben!
The Italian philosopher of gloom takes a surprising turn
Pose: Death & Home
Episode 5 and 6 of Pose form a mini-arc that focuses on death and home. In episode 5, Blanca’s bio-mother dies and in episode 6,…
Kill Rock Stars
Jeff Jackson’s new novel is one we’ve all heard before
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