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.
Security Theater
What crisis actor conspiracy theorists believe to be fake implies a much more generous view of the real
Some Rules for Teachers
6. remember that students have bodies and that bodies require movement, sustenance, rest, and relief
Hall of Mirrors
A self is not true or false when it is illegible, uncontained
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
These fakes are just trying to keep it real.
Purity in Oakland
a supercut of Jonathan Franzen sentences in Purity that include the word "Oakland."
The City that Care Remembered
A resource guide on Katrina and the ongoing efforts by residents to rebuild the city
Fossil Fools
The fossil fuel-based economy seems impossible to leave behind, but it’s only as immoveable as it is profitable.
Sunday Reading
Hi Sunday, We've noticed you've been a little distant lately. Is everything okay? Have you noticed anything different about us?
Scents of an Ending
The #YouStink protests will either consign the Lebanese regime to the dustbin of history, or go in its place.
The Jewish Messiah
A new documentary about former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's murderer hits too close to home for Israeli authorities
How to Win Tinder
Tinder involves managing the vulnerability of “putting oneself out there” by playing it like a video game
Against Students Stories
Students are the Worst.
Finer Things
The American Psycho of 1980s pop albums
Room 406
The destruction of a ruin is like the desecration of a body. It is a vengeance wreaked on the past in order to embitter the future.
MPREG versus Homonormcore
There is perhaps nothing more “normal” than teen girls fantasizing about boy-on-boy relationships and male pregnancy
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