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Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat. wired.trib.al/nPyNXUs

Opaque surveillance tools are being sold to governments with the promise they can predict risky travellers and ‘export borders’ to everywhere we board trains, planes and ships lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

🚨 NEW: Frontex, "voluntary" deportations, & anti-solidarity Special report by @HopeAmeliee & Anas Ambri reveals how EU-backed & Frontex-led "voluntary returns" blur the line between choice & coercion, especially in detention settings. Read it here: buff.ly/3DQI2gb

A parable: the early Romans called the Mediterranean the Mare Magum, or Great Sea. Later, as Rome spread, they called it the Mare Nostrum, or Our Sea. And later yet, as Rome dwindled and lost grip of its colonies, it became simply the Mare Mediterranium, Sea in the Middle of Land

“Now I’m in the greatest country in the world,” Sajjad said, dazed from not sleeping. The policeman laughed. At the Gates of Fortress Europe: Caitlin L Chandler for The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/online/2024/12…

“The Darfur genocide is generally dated from 2003 to 2005, but war never really stopped. For over two decades the Janjaweed and their successors have attacked rural areas, preventing internally displaced Darfuris...from returning to their farmland.” —Jérôme Tubiana

For The Dial Magazine, Caitlin L Chandler attended this year’s Munich Security Conference — her dispatch, co-published with The New York Review of Books, gives us a window into a world in which weapons spending trumps all else thedial.world/articles/news/…

SCOOP—Emails obtained by Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home." zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails…

In our new issue, Caitlin L Chandler spends a week at the Island School of Social Autonomy, learning the skills we might need to live together when it all falls apart—and looking for a leftist alternative to doomsday prepping. thebaffler.com/salvos/better-…

For The New York Review of Books, I chatted with Caitlin L Chandler about the grim reality of European militarization, Euro skepticism's prospects, and what the euphemism of migrant "detention" really means. nybooks.com/online/2025/04…

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about a family that lost 15 women and children, and the legal questions these attacks raise newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

For almost 2 weeks, Khan Suri was kept in a room without bed & with TV blaring 21 hours/day. Given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend >than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

At the Island School of Social Autonomy, Caitlin L Chandler learned how to build a pirate radio station, how to cook without electricity, and how to reframe her own feelings of powerlessness about an uncertain future. thebaffler.com/salvos/better-…

“We are walking into death. There is no solution. If you want to feed us, feed us. If you Don’t want to feed us, kill us”