AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Closing the Loop
Reclaiming a (digital) black female subjectivity will require moving away from the politics of the selfie
Critical Moments: Burning with Pride
The riots that "destroyed" Watts in 1965 gave the neighborhood's residents a sense of pride and power
More Could Have Happened With That Subplot
Wynne Greenwood, the performance artist behind Tracy + the Plastics, wants to chat on Hangouts
Sunday Reading
At least Sunday Reading made the quotes interesting.
Draw the Line
Displacement won’t be stopped unless new residents of gentrifying neighborhoods join the organizing efforts that already exist
Opening the Gate
The Ivorian novelist Edwige Renée-DRO talks about the wealth of writing talent and the weakness of Africa’s publishing infrastructure
Called to Account
The author of Debt to Society discusses how subjectivity is constituted by financial relations
Sunday Reading
If you're not reading an Amish vampire romance novel, you can read this
Labor and Looking "Professional"
Looking "professional" means looking like you're not scrambling in the gig economy.
Taming the Inexplicable
The Witness’s potentially subversive message is lost inside a culture of relentless techno-utopianism and its creator’s own hubris
America.
America is definitely crazy, definitely violent, and other countries are funny, kind, and sweet.
White Bodies, Black Faces
Why do so many white people want the power to surrender their whiteness?
This Sex Which Is Not Two
Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition
Sunday Reading
Sunday Reading delivered a strong condemnation of the Iraq War
#FungusFriday
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…
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