AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Editors' Note, Vol. 59: Abolish
Abolition presents itself as the most contemporary political endeavor and at the same time as the most venerable. Because the prison is everywhere, there is no way forward without its end.
A Women’s Strike Syllabus
Out of the textbooks and into the streets.
Get Your Strike On
On March 8th, Women of the World, Strike!
Sunday Reading
Kitabet: “Death assumes many different forms in the desert. Humane Borders counts the ways.” Welcome to the SXSW of Concrete It’s Raining Cats and Dogs…
Hal
Delayed reflections on Jim Jarmusch and Talal Asad
Sunday Reading
I do not take this lightly, and Sunday Reading's generic ‘statement’ of regret for this ‘controversy’ was not an apology. Sunday Reading lied, they printed the lie, and I am still waiting.
She's All That
Three film critics take on the thriller.
Voyeur Reality
Virtual Reality satisfies Western voyeurism without consequence. It will not blunt the global fervor to hinder the movement of bodies.
New World Anxiety
The New World is constantly creating new economies that are driven by Black demise; Black America has to adapt to the technological advances and grim visualizations that come with such updates.
Sunday Reading
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Florence Nightingale: Of Myths and Maths
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Why are we still talking about the “naughty nurse”?
By Jenna Tonn
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: A Collection
A round-up of some of The New Inquiry's favorite articles on and against love
<3 & H8 Flash Sale
We made you a Valentine.
Model Architecture: Breaking Godwin’s Law
“The only one to fix the infrastructure of our country is me—roads, airports, bridges. I know how to build” —@RealDonaldTrump, May 2015
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