No Borders and Binaries

I love the contradiction and irony of this.

Source: Times of India
We have the greatest batsman in the history of cricket on the one hand, making history yet again by becoming the highest run-getter in Test Cricket.
Juxtaposing that individual brilliance is the Sensex (Indian Stock Market) dipping below 10 K yesterday thanks to the US-led global [...]

There is no doubt that women bear the brunt of the toughest and lowest-paying jobs (not to mention UNPAID housework). From sewing garments in sweltering factories to changing dirty diapers to wiping counters to doing the dishes to serving as “sex slaves” — the overwhelming majority of workers in these occupations are women.

Take a [...]

Disclaimer - I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO
The experiment was a noble one — Instead of complying with federal immigration law, city officials in San Francisco would take on the cost of flying juveniles convicted of drug crimes to their countries. That would prevent federal deportation and criminal proceedings against these youth, giving them a clean slate [...]

From a political economy perspective which has so far been sadly marginalized in immigration debates, the Corporation is a truly ‘illegal alien,’ migrating across borders with little regard to the “rule of law.” They suck the labor and environmental resources of a “Third World” country, creating more burdens for government and taxpayers, committing crimes against [...]

I found this written as a letter to the New York Times. Lets put my intellectual disagreement with grand truths and meta narratives aside for the moment.
Truths: (1) The United States cannot support the rest of the world.
(2) One cannot blame the United States for trying to limit the influx of people across its borders.
(3) [...]