AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Seducing the 'Feeble-Minded'
By Adam R. Shapiro
Virus in the System
The radical collective Gay Shame keeps the flame of anticapitalist queer politics burning.
On Feminism’s Fragile Army
In Sara Ahmed's Living A Feminist Life, feminism is the process of gathering the shards that have been broken when we encounter walls.
Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
#StopTheRaids
A Teach-In by Josmar Trujillo
Funny Face
Sad tricks with ladders and shoes, tricks with salt...
Spell-Check Nation
Why do people continue to align themselves with the fantasy of a decorous state?
Trust in Instinct
Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse.
Free Us All
Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing.
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Editors’ Note, Vol. 60: Shame
As the Trump administration encourages shamelessness, it also tends to the panicked assumption that the United States is swelling with “bad” forces, “shameful” forces, and people and communities that need to be excised.
Novel News
Rather than asking why the New York Times—the paper of record, a bastion of free inquiry, and champion of the fact-based community—would employ Bret Stephens,…
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