Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy

Fear-mongering is built on a series of myths about how the electorate in New York – and indeed, elsewhere –is likely to view candidates like Mamdani. What are these myths?

Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap

Donald Trump badly wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine. What is he willing to give up?

Trump Echoes History of Racist Urban Crime Narratives

“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland and Baltimore, across the country.”

Al Jazeera Editor on Gaza Assassination of 5 Reporters

Mohammed and Anas were the eye behind the lens catching all the details to the world from Gaza City. They were the only two prominent voices left in Gaza.

Global Left Midweek – August 13, 2025

A better world’s in birth

Corporate Stay-or-Pay Contracts

As regulators crack down on noncompete agreements that bar workers from finding better jobs, employees across the country are increasingly bound by a new form of “stay-or-pay” contract that indebts them to their bosses.

‘This Isn’t Normal!’

"If people aren't allowed to peacefully protest and the elections are being rigged through gerrymandering and voter suppression, how are Americans supposed to respond when they figure out their lives are being actively destroyed by a fascist gov't.

Gaza City’s Iconic Shuja’iyya Neighborhood - Gone

The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased.

Back to Basics

Review of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, by Osita Nwanevu.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 12, 2025

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Culture

books

Genocide in Perspective

David Finkel Against the Current
"It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone."

poetry

In Breath / Out Breath

Esther Kamkar
Iranian-American poet Esther Kamkar has lived in both Iran and Israel. Rather than split herself in two, she strives to knit her warring halves together.

books

The Most Important Book of 2025

Paul Buhle Portside
If denial of collective self-determination of a people is a sin of the modern age, as Israeli defenders often repeat, what of the self-determination of Palestinians? Palestinian violence falls and rises when the hopes for autonomy...[are] crushed...

books

The Liberal Who Hates Leftists

Pratinav Anil The Guardian
In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action.

Labor

labor

Everyone Hates Airlines, Especially the Workers Set To Strike

Adam D. K. King Jacobin
The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

labor

Bringing Labor Stories to Conservative Communities

Tim Sheard & Len Shindel Portside
My book is quenching the throats of those who are sick of seeing the wealthy and powerful credited with everything good in the county and the working families castigated for their backwardness by the privileged members of both political parties.

labor

A Spark of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers

Hadas Thier Hammer & Hope
The federal work force, like much of the country, is in a do-or-die moment. As federal unions engage in lengthy legal battles, the growing Federal Unionists Network has provided a fulcrum for rank-and-file members who don’t want to wait to resist.

Friday nite video

video

Is Information a Fundamental Force of Our Universe?

Researchers put forward a bold new law of nature — one that could explain how everything in the universe evolves, from atoms, minerals and stars to living cells, ecosystems and even human civilization