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.
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
Sunday Reading
Some notes from the last 5000 years of the last two weeks
Pence’s Guide to Cinema
"There are icebergs ahead and we know it," Pence wrote on his odd blog in the '90s, after watching Titanic. We couldn't agree with him more.
Consuming la Malinche, Destroying the Myth
The myth of Mexico’s first indigenous mother holds that her betrayal marked all her descendants as bastards, but the real culprit has always been empire.
The Fash Bash Bash Reel
Sponsored by the Limited-Edition Antifa Tote
Blue History
The ocean archive catalogues the ways we have been laid to waste and have wasted.
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
Retconning America.
Seeping Through The Pages
America's rigid racial categories erase more fluid forms of Indigenous self-identification.
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
The bildungsroman as living historical document.
The Enemy of All Mankind
If Global Fishing Watch is unlikely to be used by ordinary citizens of the countries most affected by illegal fishing, why is it marketed like a neighborhood watch tool?
Sunday Reading
a total and complete shutdown of airports until our country's Muslims can figure out what is going on
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