People Sorters
...ban” for the past nine months, this kind of xenophobia was no surprise. But an interesting detail emerged as journalists tried to determine how Trump’s off-the-cuff policy proclamations might actually...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...inscribed at the bottom of a certain quantity of dirt. It was more final than any deposits of shale. So many times we tried to go down so many times....
The Will to Wall
...thousands of unauthorized migrants have perished since the mid-1990s, and elsewhere. He recounts one particularly horrific case, that of 15-year-old Felani Khatun, who in January 2011 tried to surreptitiously cross...
May the curse of labor be cursed, may the ineluctability of production become its sorrow
...themselves and tried to take control, visibly or secretly. What's of interest, then, in the text is neither their rather flat account of how "repressive society," that endlessly indistinct notion,...
Get Thee to a University
...ticket and came on the train." Hessler couldn't deviate further from the standard post–9/11 construct if she tried. No retiring domestic goddess, she, like so many other women, felt duty-bound...
A Country Disappeared
...all-out war with the cartels. And although we grew jaded and the government tried to deflect attention from the issue by pushing its head into the sand at first, then...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...you navigate only by your libido. Or if you feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of...
Staging an Epidemic
What is AIDS to you?
Ordinary Boredom
...display are the postcards Shore had made, a series called Tall in Texas, featuring more or less generic locales in Amarillo. Apparently he tried to sell these commercially and reportedly...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...Koroma’s cause. As these kinds of mistakes plague their presidencies, these leaders have tried to assert symbolic control of the situation and thereby preserve the system they have made and...
Les Trahisons des Clercs
...procedures of prediction another. The Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, forwarded the idea that criminals may be distinguished by certain shared physiognomic traits. Francis Galton tried to define these traits by...
Bitter Medicine
...medicine for privileging the study of physiology while vainly ignoring the “practical” art of healing; in his Organon der Rationellen Heilkunde, Hahnemann writes: Physicians no longer tried to see diseases...
This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
"Against Literary Passports: the Many Languages of African Literature" (Conference Paper)
...Asmara Declaration had tried to define what they meant by “African” language—to draw clear borders between mother-tongues and foreign—that specificity would have made consensus more difficult, as a variety of...