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The fight for Medicare for All is one of the most important in the United States today. And despite the many horrors of 2020, the movement demanding an end to our privatized health system actually made some headway this year.

“The proposal to reduce the 60-hour overtime threshold threatened to regulate New York’s family farms out of existence,”

The Persian American poet Majid Naficy warns of celebrating a change of regimes too soon.

There is work to do—and people who want to work.

Under the slick suits and high tension shootouts, America’s favorite thrillers are hiding something.

FedEx workers at the Memphis World Hub said they were pressured to work faster than they felt was safe.

A fascinating and timely history of how science developed via the achievement of pursuing only observation and experiment (not politics).

Nelson is emblematic of the new rising labor movement—one increasingly defined, unlike that of the past, by women and so-called women’s work.

Pixar's 'Soul' is a story about Black life that questions the meaning of all life on Earth

The danger of a fascist-like regime consolidating its power has been averted. For now. But make no mistake: The issue of whether we will move forward or be dragged into an abyss has been postponed, not decided. Please help - Portside's annual appeal