Portside

On paper, the influence-peddling business is drying up. But lobbying money is flooding Washington, DC like never before. What’s going on?

Nonetheless, the film's central premise is important - and asks us to imagine what it would be like to have a government that serves workers, the poor, and the elderly and disabled as devotedly as it serves corporate interests.

Thus, organizing a union really must be a community affair.

Some things indeed have changed.

We must confront connected regulators and force them to pull the plug. Our democracy depends on it

Cuba, Healthcare, Autoworkers, 2016 Election

As we celebrate Darwin’s birthday on February 12, there is some positive news about Americans’ views

Even before Michael Dunn encountered Jordan Davis and his friends, he was primed to see young black men as dangerous “thugs” to be eliminated, and empowered by right-wing culture to believe he had the absolute right to do so.

As a whole, the people of Egypt opted for unarmed mass demonstrations over joining a guerrilla struggle because they believed strategic nonviolence was the more practical and effective means of ousting the heavily militarized Mubarak regime. The past six months, which have hardly served to weaken the army’s hand, suggest that the tactical judgment of nonviolent revolutionaries carried considerable wisdom.

A day and a half after the release of 27,000 emails obtained in the first completed investigation, the verdict of the national media is in: This Walker scandal is boring, which in Beltway-speak commands that all serious journalists just move along.