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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Beheld

Guest Post: The Politics of Tibetan "Plateau Redness"

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoApril 14, 2016
The debate surrounding "plateau redness" of Tibetan faces is part of the long history of situating women's bodies at the center of the struggle against colonialization.
Features, Special Projects

Donald Trump: "Donald Trump"

By Sam LavigneApril 13, 2016
A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name.
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersApril 12, 2016
Sixty percent of the time, Sunday Reading happens every time
Latest Issue

Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Features

The New Inquiry Vol. 51: Blogroll

By TNIApril 12, 2016
An editor's note about your blogs, and ours.
Essays & Reviews

The Chaparral Insurgents of South Texas

By Aaron Miguel CantúApril 7, 2016
A new exhibit cops to state-sanctioned murder, but not vulnerability
The Austerity Kitchen

Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 7, 2016
Under conditions of capitalism, it may be that you are what you don't eat
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersApril 3, 2016
[Poutines arrive.] Ooh-la-la.
Essays & Reviews

Dark Pools

By Miranda TrimmierMarch 30, 2016
Narratives of financial complexity obscure how capitalist realisms are made—and might be unmade
The Beheld

The Worst Hair Dryer in the World

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 29, 2016
A quick dip into the history of hair-drying, pre-blow-dryers.
Zunguzungu

Choose, in the imperative (Carlos Labbé's Loquela)

By Aaron BadyMarch 28, 2016
You must.
Essays & Reviews

Discipline and Pleasure

By Vicky OsterweilMarch 28, 2016
Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersMarch 27, 2016
Nothing but flies
Essays & Reviews

Cooking Class

By Christine BaumgarthuberMarch 25, 2016
Though food writing has been an elite delicacy for most of history, for a brief moment it became a middle-class staple
Essays & Reviews

The Birth of a Beauty Criticism

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoMarch 23, 2016
Appearance is no longer just a topic for fashion ads and how-to guides
Zunguzungu

An Arbitrary Number of Theses on Donald’s Trump

By Aaron BadyMarch 22, 2016
my hands are normal hands

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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 LazzJune 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
Uncategorized

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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