Inside Joe Arpaio’s Tent City

Exclusive 1995 photos from inside the cruel Tent City run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was recently pardoned by Trump.

On Ice

In U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities, the law’s reach is tenuous.

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Feeling into Action

On Lori Gruen’s Entangled Empathy

Of Popes and Dogs

The Church has always had a vexed, somewhat aggrieved relation to dogs and their status as things to be blessed or sanctified.

Dogs Are Not People

Why are we so desperate to assume animals must be like us?

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

A Conversation with Jonathan M. Katz

How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see.

Remembering Trouillot

He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.

Exterminate the Brutes

Your pit bull is too violent to live—even if it isn’t.

Return to Haiti

A year and a half after the earthquake.

Like a Dog

Serge Avedikian’s Barking Island.

Dead Dogs

Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

“Civilizing Haiti”

It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.

Between the Devil and the Deep Sea

When my father was dying, he wanted me to read him Lamentations and Ezekiel. 

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words.

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

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