The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Bail Bloc 2.0
Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention
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
Dreaming of NAFTA
Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border. Her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream.
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
To turn the U.S.-Mexico border into the Border, America had to erase its Caribbean history
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
By Amanda Rossillo
“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform
By Robert Davis
A Pueblo, a World
What from outside seems an extraordinary feat of organization is nothing more than the everyday forms of collective life
Whistleblowers Get the Bullet, Too
Coming forward with the state's secrets is not a ticket to absolution
Scam or Die
The New Inquiry editors discuss last year’s so-called “Summer of Scam” and its endless aftermath
Good Design . . . for Whom?
Aestheticizing the expansion of the prison industrial complex
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
Mask with a Crush
Reflections from a novelist who takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center
Can’t Take a Joke
An interview with Lauren Berlant
Vol. 69 Editors’ Note: Insiders
The first issue in our newsletter model
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
The White Man’s Boredom
Governing empire was deadening to its administrators, and lethal to its victims
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Hysterical Housewives, Radical Feminists, and The Gendering of Expertise About The Pill
By Chris ChoGlueck
To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted
By Caroline Cook