Portside

We asked Prof. Falk specifically about the Palestinian people’s right to defend themselves, and, specifically, about armed struggle and its consistency (or lack thereof) with international law.

As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile

A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.

Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI.

That was the week that was

The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t bumbling through an ill-advised reform effort. It’s deliberately sabotaging federal agencies to make way for privatization.

If due process is of no moment, then the government could snatch any American citizen off the street, falsely accuse them of being a “criminal alien,” ship them to an overseas prison, then disavow any responsibility to bring them back

Peddling Snake Oil from the Oval Office (2020), Refugees from the Great Dust-Up (1935), Jonas Salk, Lifesaver (1955), Fighting Racism for the Long Haul (1775), Ireland’s Prelude to Freedom (1920), Getting Organized to Fight Jim Crow (1960)

Rumeysa Ozturk and John Peter Zenger are book ends to the history of the First Amendment — the one that guarantees freedom of speech, association, religion, the right to petition for redress of grievances and freedom of the press.