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Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”

By Devana SenanayakeNovember 10, 2025
Sri Lanka's history of social housing offers models and warnings to the rest of the world.
Features

Palestine is Free (If You Want It)

By TNI Editors and FriendsMay 15, 2021
The right to a free and united Palestine from the river to the sea, the right of return, and the right to live in dignity under a just and lasting peace.
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Personification

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021
A national gas-lighting project. That we didn’t see what we saw with our own eyes.
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Reprieve

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021
My greatest resentment is how little they prepare you for becoming a woman
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South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 11, 2021
This is how you demobilize a cause: by framing ethical boundaries as negotiations
Lines of Revolt

Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)

By LiaisonsMay 7, 2021
This is the first part of a text we will publish in two parts, and which is featured in Liaisons’ forthcoming book, “Horizons.” In the…
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Analysis

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 5, 2021
"You promised me not to break your promise anymore, it is I, dear, who have caused this break." —"All of Asia is indefinitely on hold."
Kazakh postage stamp in tribute to koumiss, a fermented dairy drink
The Austerity Kitchen

Fermented Foods: A History

By Christine BaumgarthuberApril 8, 2021
Suspicion of fermented foods owes to a peculiar blend of scientific and market forces so influential as to sway consumer preference in the direction of bland, unappetizing mass-produced substitutes for the zestier originals we can – and did – make ourselves.
Lines of Revolt

Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection

By Sabu Kohso and LiaisonsDecember 14, 2020
A Letter From Sabu Kohso
Lines of Revolt

Lockdown

By LiaisonsDecember 11, 2020
A Letter From Kolkata
Lines of Revolt

Shaheen Bagh

By LiaisonsDecember 4, 2020
A Letter From Kolkata
Features

Whose Streets?

By Alexia GarciaNovember 13, 2020
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
The Epic Present

Episode One: All The Factory's A Stage

By Aditya BahlOctober 5, 2020
But it was not capitalism alone that determined the workers’ social life both in the factory and the colony.
Lines of Revolt

The Revolution Post-Explosion

By LiaisonsSeptember 11, 2020
A Letter From Beirut
Lines of Revolt

Warning

By LiaisonsSeptember 9, 2020
A Letter From Minneapolis
Features

Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian

By Hil MalatinoAugust 31, 2020
For María Lugones

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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
Uncategorized

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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