Portside

The real animal is subsumed by the fantasy, in the way that the real human lives under threat—every man, woman and child under the gun of a government carried away with its own gleeful cruelty—become nameless statistics or worse, fodder for photo-ops

President’s supporters are gleeful but Everglades jail could prove to be a humanitarian and environmental tragedy

The most dangerous thing about Alligator Alcatraz isn’t the alligators. It’s the message...