John Washington

Eyes on the Border

“People living in unlivable circumstances will do what they can to seek a better life, whatever is being said about them in the American media.”

Hopping Across the Line

In Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León uses the anthropological method of “deep hanging out” to offer a complicated portrait of migrant smugglers.

The Return of Trump—III

On abortion, labor, NatCon, the rise of authoritarianism, the darkroom of propaganda, and the threat of mass deportation. 

‘We Got Kidnapped Again’

Migrants are facing unprecedented dangers traveling to—and waiting at—the US–Mexico border, but the Democratic Party has yet to rethink its immigration policy.

Burning Up

Reading John Vaillant’s Fire Weather and Jeff Goodell’s The Heat Will Kill You First, you may wonder if civilization is getting so hot that we’re no longer thinking straight.

Journey to the North

Javier Zamora’s retelling of the almost lethal three-thousand-mile journey he made from El Salvador to the US as a child gives the experience of migration extraordinary immediacy.