AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Immortal Techniques
23andMe makes the human body immortal at last
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Groupthinkers
A review of Divining Desire (OR Books) by Liza Featherstone
Will the Real Amelia Peabody Please Stand Up?
By Kathleen Sheppard
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
By Kanta Dihal
What Was the Child?
Childhood as we currently understand it emerged with 20th century capitalism, but as the distinction between labor and leisure is breaking down, so too is the concept of childhood
Paradise Lost
The Florida Project and the New Proletarian Cinema of 2017 tell of the persistence and loss of dreams
Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
Save the World
How Star Wars films thematize their own irrelevance
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
Bad faith: a magnanimous euphemism. To accuse someone of acting in bad faith is to assume that their motives are duplicitous. It avoids calling them…
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
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