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.
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
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Pat Parker, Pit Stop
Feral Memes
The ISISCat is an LOLCat gone feral
The Standing Vote
The state's racist response to the Standing Rock encampment has alienated some from the ballot box. A dispatch from Nanjala Nyabola.
Sunday Reading
oh sorry
The Case for Medical Reparations
After forcing black people to suffer centuries of unethical medical experimentation, what should American medicine owe them?
Can't Wait Forever
The Native and the Refugee investigates how the spatial contexts of Native reservations in the U.S. and Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East incubate resistance to settler colonialism. An interview with co-directors and producers, Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny.
Bloodless Lies
This Is an Uprising is a widely celebrated new book about how social movements history distorts their histories to celebrate non-violence
Trump 2.0
The extreme distance between Trump’s attempted centrism in 2000 and his championing of the alt-right in 2016 is a product of a rapid proliferation of publics in new media
Editors' Note, Vol. 56: Violence
Editors' Note, The New Inquiry Vol. 56: Violence
Regulating Ruins
Ruin chic is the ruin regulated, stabilized and packaged for consumption
Sunday Reading
Custer died for this pipeline
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