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The MAGA Honeymoon Is Over

Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.

Why Insurance Cut Off Her Mental Health Coverage

Insurers use a patient’s improvement to justify denying mental health coverage which, in some cases, can cause dangerous, or even fatal, backslides.

Will Defeating the Oligarchs Be Easy? Of Course Not

If there was ever a moment when progressives needed to communicate our vision to the people of our country, this is that time. Despair is not an option.

What It’s Like To Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Gaza Tent

Five newborns have died of hypothermia amid the cold in Gaza. Doctors tell Drop Site the deaths are a direct result of Israel's blockades

Global Left Midweek – January 1, 2025

The big picture

Top 2024 Victories for People and Planet

Across the globe, people took bold steps to care for the planet; 2024 showed us the strength of coming together with purpose and passion.

The Positive Effects of a Global Minimum Wage

The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill.

A Palestinian Year in Review: Genocide, and Resistance

The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip.

Teachers Turn To Study Groups

Amid right-wing attacks on classrooms, study groups light a “fire of hope” among anti-racist educators.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 31, 2024

Cold culture wars heating up
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Culture

film

The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane

Bill Meyer Hollywood Progressive
An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad files.

A Portside Message: Say ‘No’ to a Wannabe Dictator

Portside Moderators Portside
Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.

poetry

peeling potatoes

Nels Goñi Christianson
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.

books

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Blaire Briody Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

Labor

labor

What Is Salting?

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.

labor

How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.

labor

Whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s Urgent Message for Us

Sarah Milov, Katherine Turk Jacobin
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

labor

Politically Corrupt and Morally Bankrupt

Helen Mercer Morning Star
Cold War anti-communism directly contributed to US labor’s decline in the latter half of the 20th century. That is a betrayal, at home and abroad, of the interests of the working class they were elected to represent.

Friday nite video

video

Nickel Boys | Movie

Based on the true story of two boys imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility that covered up a long history of abuse

video

BBC in Civil War Over Gaza

BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage