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Whose Streets?

By Alexia GarciaNovember 13, 2020
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
Shines Like Gold

Can dropping a little data change conclusions?

By imp kerrJanuary 6, 2021
How much is an hour of your free time worth? $19.
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
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Frenemies

Vol. 74 | April 2020

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Shines Like Gold

Un cocktail, des Cocteau

By imp kerrDecember 7, 2020
eBay believed that for every dollar they’re spending, they’re getting 50 cents of net profits. And what we showed is that on average, they’re losing more than 60 cents on every dollar.
Lines of Revolt

Shaheen Bagh

By LiaisonsDecember 4, 2020
A Letter From Kolkata
Shines Like Gold

“A STUDENT IN 6 MINUTES HAD 776 HEAD AND EYE MOVEMENTS”

By imp kerrNovember 19, 2020
Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
Shines Like Gold

Losing nothing is better than gaining nothing

By imp kerrNovember 10, 2020
Man shot in Russia in argument over Kant
Shines Like Gold

‘Smoking doesn’t kill.’ –Mike Pence

By imp kerrOctober 31, 2020
Research says farts can be released through your breath if you hold them in
Shines Like Gold

‘The sea has neither meaning nor pity.’ –Chekhov

By imp kerrOctober 31, 2020
Balling out of control
Shines Like Gold

An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang

By imp kerrOctober 13, 2020
Parrots removed from UK wildlife park after they started swearing at customers
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.
Shines Like Gold

The Art of the One-Word Poem

By imp kerrSeptember 20, 2020
When we lose weight, where does it go?
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 Liz KinnamonJune 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
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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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