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.
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,…
black . . . gay
“black . . . gay” attempts to name and inhabit the possibilities of the ellipses
White Collar Crime Risk Zones
The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View…
Misery Loves Company
In László Krasznahorkai’s latest work, the apocalypse has arrived and we’re living in it.
What Is the New Inquiry?
As before, always.
The Personal in the Professional: a 19th-Century Hangover
By Amanda Barnett
Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
By Kathleen Sheppard
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
The New Inquiry's Relaunch and Fundraiser
Celebrate TNI's relaunch this Sunday, April 23 in New York City.
This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
The Development Imaginary: Tracks*
something like an introduction: This record is incomplete. It is missing deleted emails that shaped these ideas; the bibliography of documents--academic articles, development plans (especially…
Public Letter From a Mother of the Bronx 120
Designed by legislators and orchestrated by the police, raids are a means to drive residents out of their homes and into prisons.
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