AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Sunday Reading
Sunday Sunday Sunday
Policing the Troubles
In divided Northern Ireland, policing by consent turned into community vigilantism
The Black and Blue Line
South Africa’s turn to untrained black constables to maintain order as apartheid crumbled reveals the inherent limitations of community policing
Fall Exhibition Opening @ MoCADA 10/17
Celebrate the opening of Dis place, curated by Allison Davis and Ali Rosa-Salas, Selections from Revelations, a photography series by Kudzanai Chiurai, and HOW TO…
My Own Private Detroit
Private policing in the Motor City
Sunday Reading
the oak leaf itch mite of content provision
Blue Skies
Body camera manufacturers see profit in the “cop cloud”
Editors' Note, Vol. 45: Cops 2
As the border patrol for all the borders capitalism designs, the very job description of policing ensures that none of its agents can be “good.”
Belly Up
Advice you can stomach
Faked in China
Shanzhaiji both fulfill and threaten China’s brand ambitions on the world stage
Sunday Reading
Woman yells at Sunday Reading for destroying her kayak
The Uses of Orphans
The literary orphan belongs to no world except that of narrative opportunity, but some real orphans seek to change the world with rage
Stories of Our Lives: Memories
Repeatedly, these narratives try to navigate between what a queer life might be and what a Kenyan life is.
Stories of Our Lives: Introduction
How might a cum stain on a bathroom wall theorize?
Room Boys
Living That Life in Dubai
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