Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation
The past is prolog: after living in the U.S. for 18 years, a father is swept up in the largest workplace raid in ICE history, a daughter's quinceñera goes on
R's suffered a near wipeout in North Carolina, but the outgoing legislature is attempting a truly Trumpian power grab to thwart the expressed will of the voters and to eviscerate democracy
The day-to-day struggles of the Amazon Labor Union, an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions and internal conflicts
This breakthrough kick-started an AI revolution in biology research, clearing the path to revolutionary new techniques in protein design
Prestigious publications have often failed to see when things were so clearly wrong. In 2024 journalism needs crusading journalists as much as it did in the 1930s.
By Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson, originally released in 1988. Still unfortunately relevant to our times.
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