Portside

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was the tie-breaking vote on a measure that conflicts with Biden’s strategy in the Middle East.

How did a single chapter from a book written over six decades ago by a Black psychiatrist, who never discussed the Israel-Palestine issue, become widely cited in relation to October 7? A new biography explores the life of Frantz Fanon.

Did large dinosaurs go extinct the way a Hemingway character quipped he went broke: “gradually, then suddenly”? Eoneophron adds evidence that caenagnathids were doing quite well for themselves before the asteroid ruined everything.

Today’s hatemongering reflects a deeply rooted problem: a global “crisis of the right to stay home” due largely to Washington’s role in structuring the world’s economics and politics.

Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.

Freedom in Reproduction-Maryland is taking the lead, working with other abortion rights groups to persuade voters to approve the new language in an informational campaign called “Vote Yes on Reproductive Freedom."

Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash.

An interactive tool that shows the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living, for every County in the United States.

A neural network that taught itself to recognize objects using the filmed experiences of a single infant could offer new insights into how humans learn.

Having driven most of the nomadic Bedouin from their land, the extremist settlers are increasingly targeting Palestinian towns and villages, encroaching on densely populated areas and inciting larger-scale brawls.