AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
The Soft Boys
Elizabeth Peyton’s painting uses the tropes of amateur fan art to tame the fluidity of queer desire
Paths to Gory
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
When Game of Thrones Stopped Being Necessary
In the context of romantic high fantasy, the show’s sado-masochistic narrative engine had a moderately subversive purpose.
Sunday Reading
Monday is the New Sunday
I'm Not Ready
The Hillary Clinton campaign casts voters as fans and reveals white feminism’s anti-black bias
Looking at The Flick
In Annie Baker's Pulitzer-winning play The Flick, tensions over race, sex, and labor automation appear in a mirror
The Crimson Ghost
What it means to be a fan of performers who hate their fans
We're Taking Fan Requests
To celebrate our 41st issue and to honor our cherished fans, we're taking requests. Is there a topic you've always wanted to see covered on…
Editors' Note, Vol. 41: Fans
Fans aren’t the irrational ones
Mara
You will learn that chickens have their pride.
While I Was Away
Image | Wambui Mwangi Image | Wambui Mwangi Three semi-related pieces have emerged: A meditation on love, written when I felt more optimistic about the…
Two Tickets to IRL Club @ The Bell House
We're giving away tickets to IRL Club! If you subscribe to receive the magazine before noon on Friday, you'll be automatically entered to win a…
Our Boys Gone Wild
The IDF's "selfie militarism" means smiling while playing the bad guy
Summer Heat
History shows police violence against Black people is intractable. What should we do? Quite simply, we must end the police.
Sunday Reading
I have eaten the donut that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast
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