AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Lady Wranglers
Joy Rankin writes about Lady Wranglers and the gendered history of mathematics.
Resisting Trump’s Islamophobic Promise for America
For many Muslim Americans, 9/11—and America’s complicity—has never ended
Air Force Drone
An interview with Jameel Jaffer, who helped force the Obama Administration to release documents underlying its campaign of targeted killings.
Lose Your Kin
White people must refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality; they must rend the fabric of the kinship narrative
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
In this month’s column, our advice columnist Zahira Kelly helps readers understand their complex feelings about this past summer’s Olympic games and the ways power and beauty are intertwined.
Against Extinction
Notes on building The Movement
The Gamble
How leftists were blinded to Trump’s winning prospects
The Sisterhood, If It Ever Existed and It Probably Didn't, Shattered While I Wasn't Looking and All I Got Was This Dumb Safety Pin
Summary: Show up.
¡Viva la revolución! A pledge from Susan Surandon
In an exclusive letter to the New Inquiry, Academy Award winning actress Susan Surandon pledges to fund the revolution she longed for
Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
The second in a series of reactions from TNI friends, contributors, and editors on what happens after 11/9
Waking Up in Trump's America, Part 1
The first in a series of reactions from TNI contributors and friends on waking up after 11/9
The Day After The Election I Did Not Go Outside
“oh country, my new and brief country/ how I walk from you/ full & into the wreckage”
Say it with us:
Fuck this.
Where the butchers still wash their hands
They think only that which sounds beautiful can be true.
Don't Be A Hero
Jordan Flaherty's No More Heroes describes the harm committed by the modern-day do-gooder, but stops short of outlining systems of power that uphold the hero role
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