AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
On Privatization and Brutalizing Campuses
We knew he was out of town while campus police were brutalizing their campus, but that's all we knew.
An Interview with TNI's Creative Director Imp Kerr in The Huffington Post
Imp Kerr is an enigmatic artist and graphic designer based in New York. HuffPost Arts first heard about her in 2007, when a series of…
Links Roundup 3.2.12
Santorum-colored nail polish, the Anti-Flirt Club, ancient funerary cosmetics, and more.
Advertising and the health of the internet
Is it too late to imagine an internet without advertising? Is advertising the inevitable end point and meaning of any information that circulates?
Peace And/Or Quiet
Is John Horgan anti-war or anti-noise?
On Body Neutrality
Body neutrality is a white flag thrown into the ring. It is the gauntlet thrown down when you realize that what you’re doing? It just isn’t working for you.
Where is the Line Between Us?
Leila Hatami said A Separation is a very good film and a very honest film. Is that going to be OK, or at least good enough, for now?
Butterfly Effect
Men were like butterflies to Margaret Fountaine: They were apt to flit away without warning or leave-taking....
Lumps of Labor
How economic-policy discussion hides the agency of workers, rendering them so much raw fuel for capital
Interview: Leah Smith, Public Policy Ph.D. Student, Lubbock, TX
"My clothes are a way of putting up a shield, of saying to the world that the things people might believe about little people aren't true. That's not who I believe I am—this is who I am."
Locations Requiring Further Examination
"Clientele is mainly American."
No Kings of New York
TNI editor sat down for a conversation with the Minneapolis-based hip-hop collective Doomtree.
Body Image Tips From Plato
With the Theory of Forms, every particular instance of an apple is understood as an approximate expression of its Ideal Form, inherently flawed. And when we're talking about body image and how we see ourselves, that’s where the problems start.
Santorum's Gifts
Alas! I made the mistake of reading Rick Santorum, and this knowledge led me into sin.
The Slow Politics of Occupied Filmmaking
The Liveswarm has made for some of the most effective movement propaganda in decades, but what are its aesthetics?
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