Portside

Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse.

An Israeli company enabled the hacking of American citizens’ phones – possibly including some belonging to government officials.

How changes to California’s Proposition 13 could reduce inequality.

What if a team of people in recovery from drug addiction were enlisted to teach the pharmaceutical executives what it really means to take responsibility?

In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.

The vast majority of the House Democratic Caucus are progressives on the issue of trade. They have staunchly insisted that without drastic changes, a new NAFTA is not worth having. They have taken their cues from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Highly stylized output of models that assume supply-constraints on growth are the norm, and which are presented as effects on “growth” and “jobs” with no further context are notably unuseful, and often actively misleading in today’s policy debates.

The path back to sanity is thorny but not impossible.

Our culture is saturated with media representations of young black men. Rarely do we see their lives unfold as they do in Hale County This Morning, This Evening—as full inhabitants of their own prosaic and grand humanity.

Our elimination of other species probably wasn’t a planned, coordinated effort of the sort practised by civilisations, but a war of attrition. The end result, however, was just as final.