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“Deportation Assistants”: US Police Collaboration with ICE Today

The sight of masked immigration agents rampaging through cities, ripping people of color from their cars and homes, and killing at least ten people on the streets has sown terror and mass outrage across the US. Innumerable abuses by the second Trump administration’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) have, naturally, thrust […]

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Critics in Glass Houses

The conclusive statements about anthropology in the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences do not fit my own wide experience of the field or its practitioners. Nor, I think, do the writers of this Report demonstrate the rigorous scholarly standards that they extoll.  From 2005 until 2019, I held the position of […]

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Let Us Flourish!

Dear Reader, The public release of the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences on June 5, 2026, sent shockwaves through the academy, sparking immediate headlines and intense debate. At its core is a provocative charge: that the humanities and humanistic social sciences face a crisis of their own making, […]

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