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For decades, Boeing chose shareholders and executives over workers and production quality — to the tune of $69 billion.

If our aim is economic and social justice, we’d do better to focus on changing the rules—including the rules of the Democratic Party. Even more important than the candidates we elect are the rules that determine whether real change is possible.

Trump lawyers assert, in court, that as president he would have the right to assassinate political opponents. The GOP is flat-out embracing insurrectionists. Here is how we – Portside moderators – assess the danger to democracy. And how you can help.

Israeli officials said their goal is to ensure that Gaza will be an unlivable place once they end their merciless military campaign. Filling those tunnels with polluted water will ensure remaining residential buildings will suffer structural problems

With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal. The administration’s posture of indifference strains credulity.

After decades, a progressive president in Guatemala

“. . . if the major media picks up on this story, they will have the chance to report on what arguably is the worst—and most harmful—scandal in American medical history”

The world is finally talking about them.

The Supreme Court, it appears, is planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since the New Deal…

But experts and advocates aren't surprised: They say U.S. prisons are filled with potentially thousands of innocent people.