AMLO All Along
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Holy Land
Zionism excavates its secular justification from the Jerusalem dirt
Beauty Didn't Birth the Beast
Good looks as liability—and as a lens, one of many.
Sunday Reading
You can only build a wall on it only you can build a wall on it
Miracle on 214th Street
The instantaneous apparition of Polaroid images creates miraculous and apocalyptic visions
70 Years Ago Today
"[Y]ou saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips."
Justice in One Country
So-called left-wing Zionism is white nationalism by another name
Any person who sings the praises of war is, in our opinion, a blithering idiot (Christmas Day, 1915)
O’ROURKE (London.) – Thanks, comrade. We are more proud of the comradeship of toilers like yourself than you can well imagine. It is such loyalty…
A brief review of Ngozi Onwurah's Welcome II the Terrordome
In a just world, a virus of tremendous scope and tenacity would ravage all the archives.
The New Somali Studies
What would a decolonized Somali Studies look like?
St. Cthulu in the Anthroposcene
No matter how far they run, contemporary horror writers can’t escape their genre’s racist forbearers
Sunday Reading
- Hi, I'm the President. - Hi, I'm Vice President. And we put walls on things. And we put walls on things.
Collector's Item
You can't collect the things, in themselves; you can only collect yourself.
Defacing Bush Colleges
Throwing poo.
Against the Normative World
A theorist who left behind a position as a preacher in the Blackpentecostal church returns to its practices for the potency of their critique
Editors' Note, Vol. 39: Faith
The first fact of the world is that people believe in 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