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By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantOctober 18, 2022
Excerpted from Health Communism (2022)
Features

From Gender Critical to QAnon: Anti-Trans Politics and the Laundering of Conspiracy

By Jules Gill-PetersonSeptember 13, 2021
Stated disavowal of their own bias doesn’t account for how liberals rhetorically shelter political violence
Essays & Reviews

Pfizer Walk With Me

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VierkantSeptember 13, 2021
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
Features

Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman

By Sascha CohenSeptember 13, 2021
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Features

Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner

By Brian Whitener and Peer IllnerSeptember 13, 2021
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Features

Vol. 75 Editors’ Note: Pandemic

By TNISeptember 13, 2021
This is the editor’s note for TNI Vol. 75: PANDEMIC
Essays & Reviews

Eine kleine Paranoia

By Mary Elizabeth BorkowskiSeptember 13, 2021
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Essays & Reviews

The Year of Magical Thinking

By Gasira TimirSeptember 13, 2021
Viral manifestation logics imagine that everyone else is an NPC
Features

Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm

By Andreas Petrossiants and Andreas MalmSeptember 13, 2021
It might be necessary to consider escalating
Shines Like Gold

Dollar Stores

By imp kerrAugust 16, 2021
“No six-foot social distancing rule unless you have a 6-foot dick.”
Shines Like Gold

Zero-click attacks

By imp kerrJuly 31, 2021
Elon Musk’s testimony paused as Lawyer vomits in jury box
Lines of Revolt

In the Wake of An Erosion

By LiaisonsJuly 16, 2021
Dear Liaisons, One year ago, the so-called United States saw one of the most brilliant and unforgettable uprisings in living memory. It began right here…

Tooth-to-tooth metal lock

By imp kerrJuly 5, 2021
Cop busted sniffing coke off model's butt is doing OnlyFans porn now
Features

Homegrown Fascism

By Natasha LennardJune 14, 2021
The George Floyd rebellions carried forward the legacy of a Black radical tradition that has long insisted that racist fascism coexists within, rather than in antagonism to, US liberal democracy.
Shines Like Gold

‘I don’t want to be 20 cent’ –50 cent

By imp kerrJune 13, 2021
Laughing gas improves depression
Shines Like Gold

Crypto Vegas

By imp kerrJune 7, 2021
"You'll never use the dollar again."

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019
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.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
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.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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