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.
We Cannot Afford to Protect the Anuses of the Condemned
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects shall not be violated unless it would be difficult to determine whether individual detainees fall within the proposed exemption. No Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause and describing the place to be searched except in cases where the seriousness
The Two-Cocktail Makeover
Research has proven what college freshmen have known since the days of the "co-ed": Booze makes you think you're hot stuff. But while revealing that at the core many of us think we're ravishing, the study essentially neglects women.
Lil B The Based God @ The New Museum 4/12
"Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Lil B is a twenty-two-year-old rapper/rap deconstructionist who has recorded more than 3,000 songs over the past five years,…
Arguing the Web
Vol. 3 of TNI Magazine: Arguing the Web is now available for subscribers.
Sunday Reading
Because it isn't Sunday, it is Sunday.
Shoot Hip or Die
Hipstamatic, Instagram, and the class revolt of photographic boredom.
Five Questions with Michael Kelleher
I once spent two weeks at a New York publisher’s office transcribing a ghost writer’s recorded interviews with comedienne Jenny McCarthy. He was writing her 'autobiography.'
Beauty Blogosphere 3.30.12
The lost art of not looking good, beauty products for babies, Estee Lauder's turban, and the compelling argument for chick-watching as subversive cultural rebellion. (Early April Fool's!)
Minor Cords
Escaping the grip of Child Protective Services
Power, Public Life, and The Hunger Games
The more material illuminating that feminist exists not because men want to keep women down but because the status quo has an investment in keeping people divided and with diffuse power in order to keep power concentrated, the better.
Fact Check!
Along with the title, the device under this microscope is a Sandia Ion Trap. Photo by Oxford researchers Brides magazine has a fact-checker. She does…
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
Welcome to the online home for our Issue Two: Youth celebration! We're pleased to present one of the buried gems of late 60's youth-power exploitation…
Shame: A Durkheimian Take
Steve McQueen's Shame is a lament for a culture that can't discover a legitimate limit to egoism
The Enduring Popularity of the Suntan
Self-tanners—also known as one of the few products we buy to make ourselves look less healthy than we are—hit the sweet spot between conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption.
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