Portside

Newly elected President Marina Secchitano marked the 100th anniversary of the Inlandboatman's Union with a pledge to continue its heritage of solidarity, organizing and resistance to attacks by anti-union companies or politicians.

From Alaska to New York City, millions will benefit from an increase minimum wage in 2019. Yet in Michigan and Washington DC legislators overturned referendum votes to raise wages, while the federal government still refuses to act.

An analysis of what defines our sense of self is scholarly and tender but unsatisfying.

Despite generations of imperial murder, torture, rape, and plunder, the British ruling class still gets brown-nose treatment in historical depictions. Not so in The Favourite where they are shown as the disgusting creatures they were and still are.

Amazon workers announce the launch of a union push in response to working conditions as company says it does not recognize allegations

The mystery about why the Portland restaurant, named the best burger place, closed.

As the year comes to a close, take a look back to one of the most surprising and exciting labor uprisings of 2018.

The Trump administration has made a point to eviscerate regulations of all types.

Midge, Sherman-Palladino seems to hope, can do what few women before her have managed: Put herself first above everything else, while still demanding that audiences like her.

The award-winning poet Marge Piercy decries America’s refugee policies that would make an earlier poet, Emma Lazarus, weep.