It was autumn 1774. In British North America and on the island of Great Britain an intellectual, political and legal revolution that was intended to recognize America’s unique status within the realm would become the sword of American independence. The First Continental Congress drafted a document not for the purpose of securing liberty, but for the purpose [...]
“Ddddddd… rrrrrrr… ttttttttt!” My brother stares at me in complete bewilderment just as I hold a baby corn in front of my face, waving it with the solemnity of someone confronting a geopolitical enemy rather than a vegetable. “Ah, America… don’t hit me with your corn… I’ll eat your corn, and then you’ll see who [...]
The Supreme Court today upheld birthright citizenship in a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Barbara, striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born on US soil to undocumented or temporary-visa parents. In a conversation published nearly a year ago, I spoke about the case with the controversial AI chatbot [...]
In a case that drew national attention and a half dozen emergency amicus briefs from around the country, the Alaska Supreme Court yesterday summarily affirmed an Alaska state trial court’s ruling that the state’s director of the Division of Elections, Carol Beecher, wrongly removed a senatorial candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, from the ballot. Beecher contended [...]
Wearable AI cameras like Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are outpacing the privacy and consent laws meant to protect people from covert recording. And the resulting footage is increasingly feeding the non-consensual intimate imagery market. The gap is widening fastest for women and girls, whose images are captured in public, uploaded without consent, and recycled into [...]
I was scrolling through Instagram when I came across a post circulated by Iranian musicians and cultural activists responding to the flogging sentence imposed on Parastoo Ahmadi, and what struck me was not the legal formulation of the statement nor its political framing, but a sentence that refused to settle into any category, a sentence [...]
Indonesia is a vast archipelagic nation-state characterized by a rich diversity of religions and beliefs. At the busy Manggarai station, some women wear hijabs in different colors and styles while others opt not to. Veiled or not, they head to work or school—a sign of the progress Indonesia has made on gender equality. Following a [...]
I do not have a home on the street; the street is my home. What I write does not originate in the stable architecture of academic theory, but in the unstable temporality of lived encounters, where thought is still forming, where language has not yet fully separated itself from experience, and where meaning is not [...]
I still remember the children in the courtyard of our apartment building. There were only two boys among a larger group of girls, and yet one of the most serious negotiations of their small world revolved around a strangely precise question: who would play the husband. What appeared, from the distance of adulthood, as a [...]
I am not particularly interested in football, which is perhaps precisely why it began to interest me as something other than football, since there are subjects that announce themselves through passion, through expertise, through a prior attachment that legitimizes one’s engagement with them as if understanding could only follow from caring, and there are others [...]
