The wretched state of U.S. immigration enforcement, becoming more wretched by the day.
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‘I felt dirty, a lesser person somehow than when I had left a week before.’
Rafia Zakaria’s essay in The Baffler on flying while Muslim is an important read that exposes a long list of things that most white, non-Muslim Americans never have to worry about while traveling.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
LOL, JFK: The Hot Mess That Is U.S. Immigration Law
Immigration lawyer Matt Cameron writes in The Baffler, laying bare the inequities, misconceptions, and plain messiness that characterize U.S. immigration law.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Living In These Curated Times
At The Baffler, Thomas Frank looks at the pros and cons and history of what we call “curation.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Slow Confiscation of Everything
Climate apocalypse: a coming calamity that’s morally different from nuclear exchange in a way we haven’t yet dealt with.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
(Don’t) Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
June Thunderstorm, writing in The Baffler with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, digs into the race and class issues that underlie efforts to quell smoking. Is “public health” really the name of the game?
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The End of (Almost) Everything and (Almost) Everyone
Writing in The Baffler, Laurie Penny explores what it will mean for the civilization to collapse slowly, because of climate change, rather than in a single nuclear bang.
Posted inEditor's Pick
De-Muslimization
Writer Rafia Zakaria reports back on flying while Muslim after the U.S. travel ban.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Free Education, or Freedom From Education? A Deep Dive Into DeVos
Journalist and public education advocate Jennifer Berkshire traveled to the heart of DeVos-land — the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan — to learn more about Betsy DeVos and her family’s life-long attempt to dismantle the “nanny state.”
