AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Scapegoating Machine
Peter Thiel’s philosophical mentor explains Trump, Gawker, and social media
Hillbilly Ethnography
A well-meaning, best-selling memoir promotes dangerous myths about racial determinism and racial innocence that form the bedrock of Trumpism
None of You
Doing the impossible in the Anthropocene: Henrietta Rose-Innes' Nineveh.
Militain Us
Inside the bizarre world of the military-entertainment industry’s racialized gamification of war
Sunday Reading
fake links for fake people
Thanksgiving is Bullshit
But you already knew that.
Fires of Resistance
Rage is the disavowed truth of what resistance tends toward
The Alcatraz Proclamation
After Alcatraz Prison was decommissioned and listed as surplus federal property, Red Power activists occupied it in various configurations from 1969 to 1971. This is the proclamation they issued to the US Government.
Call Me Elena
Elena Ferrante's Frantumaglia has been marketed as non-fiction. Does it matter if it isn't?
Gold Star, Brown Family
In a matter of six minutes, Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala became ideal fetish objects for a certain class of liberal-centrists in the Democratic Party
A Time for Treason
A reading list created by a group of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, and Jewish people who are writers, organizers, teachers, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, and radicals
Closing Statements
Every final statement uttered by a doomed inmate in Texas performs a perpetual labor for the state.
Sunday Reading
frozen avocados and don'ts
Syria’s Desaparecidos
Finding others through mutual loss.
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
Afton Woodward writes about the history of women as poisoners and critiques their representation in popular culture.
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