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Stateless and Hyperlegalized
January 03, 2020
On December 11, 2019, the parliament of India voted overwhelmingly to introduce a religious qualification for citizenship. The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) offers all undocumented migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan a route to naturalization, provided ...

A Work in Progress
December 27, 2019
Last month Chesa Boudin, a thirty-nine-year-old public defender, narrowly won an election to become the next district attorney of San Francisco. Boudin ran as a progressive outsider, promising to overhaul a criminal justice system that has locked up too many black and brown ...

Luxury on the Installment Plan
December 26, 2019
If I wanted to, I could lead a perfectly comfortable life without owning anything ever again. It’s possible that my quality of life might actually improve. A lifestyle devoid of ownership wouldn’t actually save me money—it would probably be costlier than my current one. ...

Fresh Hell
December 20, 2019
Making Crime Legal Again A court has ruled that MI5’s policy of allowing agents and informants to perpetrate serious crimes (as long as it’s, you know, for totally cool spy reasons) is completely legal.   But, Do You Have the Meats? Earlier this week, a Missouri ...