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.
Woke Up Dead
The hazy surreality of sleep paralysis mirrors the dysphoria of self-recognition under precarity
Red Light Green Light
For public school teachers, getting rid of tough kids shouldn't be an option
Sunday Reading
1) Magic, 2) Bad, 3) Decisive.
After #CadaanStudies
The responses to a challenge made to colonial relations of knowledge and power show that these relations are still alive and well
Editors' Note, Vol. 47: Goodnight
The editorial note to TNI Vol. 47: Goodnight.
Live Update
"It is our culture." "Our right." "Isn't this the price of freedom?" "Isn't this absurd, grotesque?" They are dead now.
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
Socialism in one country may be a difficult undertaking, but socialism in many American country towns was as easy as pie -- and just as appetizing
Holing Up
In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel burrowing is a way of settling into the ground, not taming it
A Dark City
An Afro-Russian boy searches for hope and love in the labyrinthine Moscow metro in Hamid Ismailov’s The Underground
Anthropocene Realism
If human-made climate change is irrefutable, why are we still fracking? What teaches us to believe there is no alternative to oil?
Sunday Reading
A gentle loner, Sunday Reading had no clear motive.
Shades of Sovereignty
For Somali Americans, traveling to Somalia is seen as a criminal act under the U.S.'s racialized, Islamophobic terrorist imaginary
Armed Words
An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh on the role of culture in Syria’s struggle
Critical Moments: Strength Through Unity
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims.
Coal Comfort
Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it
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