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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Essays & Reviews

Closing the Loop

By Aria DeanMarch 1, 2016
Reclaiming a (digital) black female subjectivity will require moving away from the politics of the selfie
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Critical Moments: Burning with Pride

By The New InquiryFebruary 29, 2016
The riots that "destroyed" Watts in 1965 gave the neighborhood's residents a sense of pride and power
Essays & Reviews

More Could Have Happened With That Subplot

By Am SchmidtFebruary 29, 2016
Wynne Greenwood, the performance artist behind Tracy + the Plastics, wants to chat on Hangouts
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersFebruary 28, 2016
At least Sunday Reading made the quotes interesting.
Essays & Reviews

Draw the Line

By Cynthia TobarFebruary 26, 2016
Displacement won’t be stopped unless new residents of gentrifying neighborhoods join the organizing efforts that already exist
Essays & Reviews

Opening the Gate

By Aaron BadyFebruary 24, 2016
The Ivorian novelist Edwige Renée-DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure
Essays & Reviews

Called to Account

By Miranda TrimmierFebruary 22, 2016
The author of Debt to Society discusses how subjectivity is constituted by financial relations
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersFebruary 21, 2016
If you're not reading an Amish vampire romance novel, you can read this
The Beheld

Labor and Looking "Professional"

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 19, 2016
Looking "professional" means looking like you're not scrambling in the gig economy.
Essays & Reviews

Taming the Inexplicable

By Liz RyersonFebruary 19, 2016
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
Double Take

America.

By Teju ColeFebruary 18, 2016
America is definitely crazy, definitely violent, and other countries are funny, kind, and sweet.
Essays & Reviews

White Bodies, Black Faces

By Yahdon IsraelFebruary 17, 2016
Why do so many white people want the power to surrender their whiteness?
Essays & Reviews

This Sex Which Is Not Two

By Azeen GhorayshiFebruary 15, 2016
Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersFebruary 14, 2016
Sunday Reading delivered a strong condemnation of the Iraq War
Uncategorized

#FungusFriday

By The New InquiryFebruary 12, 2016
To kick off our Interviews issue, we are giving you a double dose of shrooms for the weekend. Anna Tsing is an anthropologist whose latest…

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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
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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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