Portside

Can you explain “peaceful transition"? Where is the “Red Menace”? Is there a “Latin vote”? Why does “crazy” = “evil”? Another week, harder questions

The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change.

As climate change worsens wildfires each year, unhoused people in Oregon and Washington experience the worst of the smoke.

Even a single arrest, without conviction, can be devastating to the rest of a young man’s life – especially if he’s Black – particularly in terms of employment and earnings.

The...pressing matter is why there are conditions for such extreme fires in the first place. Climate change is one of the culprits. Western colonization of the state resulted in the wiping out of Indigenous knowledge of fire management.

While keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process is a must, we also need to prepare for a coup.

“...electoral power alone will not get us free. Protests alone are insufficient. We need to vote. We need to protest. We need to organize. We need to study. We need to strike. And then we need to protest again.”

It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy.

Immunization has always been a proxy for wider fears about social control, a history reminds us.

Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.