Lit & Border News

Blowtorch Diplomacy

and the lethal impact of modern day banishment

Jan 19 • John Washington

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December 2025

Best of 2026

a hard year, and flushing out a writer's block

Dec 29, 2025 • John Washington

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Immigration "extremism"

and facing down the pepperballs

Dec 9, 2025

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November 2025

Reading Recs on Immigration Detention

as I write my own book on the same

Nov 10, 2025 • John Washington

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October 2025

“I Know You Want to Find Me, But You’re Not Going To”

On disappearances in Guatemala and the United States

Oct 20, 2025 • John Washington

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September 2025

How to Close a Camp

new book about the immigration detention landscape

Sep 8, 2025 • John Washington

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July 2025

case / countercase

and the exultations of argument

Jul 25, 2025 • John Washington

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June 2025

LA and the omnicrisis

from the front lines of Los Angeles, and the world through the lens of Virgil

Jun 18, 2025 • John Washington

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Fear of Speech

and threats against the press in the United States and El Salvador

Jun 2, 2025 • John Washington

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April 2025

making sense of the onslaught

lessons from deep history and tracking student visa revocations

Apr 11, 2025 • John Washington

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February 2025

The President – what’s up with that?

I talk high office with a constitutional law expert

Feb 19, 2025 • John Washington

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January 2025