Aliens and native strangers
Two hundred years ago, the United States built Liberia as a place to ship its unwanted "aliens." Now it's using the country for the same purpose again.
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American Property, American Violence
The Yeoman
Uriah Brown never lived on the land that is now Cop City. He treated the winning ticket as what it functionally was, a deferred pension—an asset earned by luck, not a home—and he converted it to cash before he could have raised a season's corn on it.
The Merchant
The Privateer
The Broker
American Property, American Violence: Introduction
Prairieland
From Backfire to Prairieland: Drawing a Line Through 20 Years of Repression
What makes the Prairieland sentences notable is not that the government reached for some new authority. It is that it reached for old ones. Every instrument that produced these sentences was built years ago and used against earlier movements.
The Seeds of Prairieland
Hyperlocal Hate
Hyperlocal Hate: Paschal High's Legion of Doom
Hate group activity looked different in 1985. It was the era of isolated compounds, paramilitary training camps, pipe bombs, plots to poison the water supply, kill lists, armed standoffs, and vigilante "justice." In Fort Worth, it was the era of teenage neo-Nazis.
Hyperlocal Hate: Klavern 101
