Portside

Trump’s acceptance speech was a mishmash of self-love, protestations of toughness, and prefabricated lies.

That was the implausible message of their convention’s opening night.

Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere.

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

Taylor voiced both a cautious optimism about his union’s trajectory, and some frustration at the labor movement’s hesitation to exploit the unusually pro-union climate now abroad in the land.

We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the South.

A brief look at the 1864 territory and legislature whose strictures Arizonans must heed today

An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.

Schumer was giving voice to what most Democratic officeholders believed but were afraid to say, and he clearly had the blessing of President Biden to go ahead and make that speech. It also showed the divide between Israeli Jews and diaspora Jews.

An enduring union-community alliance in the Twin Cities may be a model for progressive victories. The Twin Cities saw a series of labor actions, premised on the belief-the more disparate groups of workers unite in common cause, the more they can win.