Portside

This book covers more than two centuries of American history, seeking to explain the evolution and enduring power of a racially inflected understanding of freedom.

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority returns to one of its favorite victims.

Research suggests that quantum effects influence biological functions. If true, this means that we could possibly control physiological processes by using the quantum properties of biological matter.

As Jewish Berliners, we are involved, both as an organization and as individuals, with ongoing traumas that are inherent to this process of the ongoing Nakba — of the oppression of Palestinians by Zionists in Palestine.

The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.

We sought to highlight a range of social, political, economic, and cultural forms of oppression that braided together in different ways in different historical situations, and which provided the focus for action by subaltern groups.

A Review of Socialist Register 2023

Something can be done about it-- on Beacon Hill

As the NBA playoffs begin, all-time basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jaabar reflects on the love/hate relationship he has had with his own body as he and it have aged in the years since he retired.

While Paxton burns—or simmers or escapes entirely—intra-party fighting and dirty laundry airing be damned, the USA’s largest, richest, and most powerful wing of the GOP have screwed Texas on such a large, systemic scale that they'll still prevail.