AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Judge From Central Casting
Repeat a word enough and it starts to sound so weird that sense dissolves into questions about language itself. Take the word “life”: Why are…
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
A Reading from 'Gharavi's Bio'
TNI contributor and blogger Maryam Monalisa Gharavi in conversation with Brian Droitcour
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
by Allison C. Meier
On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Vol. 68 Editors' Note: Classics
This issue is a return, to grounds for other departures
How Contempt Became a Genre
On Kevin Young’s Bunk and America’s seething tendencies
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
kburd: Caliban Responds
KBURD: Short for "K but u rong doe". Used when you know arguing is pointless but you need them to know they're still wrong. —Urban…
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
By Erica Eisen
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
By Kaitlin Stack-Whitney
The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
Staging an Epidemic
What is AIDS to you?
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