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New Year, New Crimes: The Challenges of 2026

Portside Moderators Portside
The murders of Pretti and Good. Venezuela. ICE occupation. In 2026, the wannabe dictator and his stooges are committing even more blatant crimes, aiming to divert attention from old crimes, sabotage the upcoming elections and avert accountability.

Poem

Rick Lupert
Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert offers this talisman against the encroaching darkness.

No Other Choice Is Another Masterpiece by Park Chan-wook

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a shocking, innovative, and darkly comic film about the pressures of life under capitalism. It’s more proof that the Oldboy director is nothing less than a cinematic master.

Za’atar: From Ancient Texts to Modern Conflict

Erick Torres-Gonzalez Jstor.org
Za’atar’s cultivation, funded by the Israeli government, attempts to use the herb to control the movements of the Palestinian population and the plant itself. The herb shapes, narrates, and anchors identity and political dynamics of the region.

Snow Moon 2026

Rafael Jesús González
Poet Rafael Jesús González offers a lament for a victim of the Trump Terror.

Illumination on the American Religious Landscape

Joel Wentz The Englewood Review of Books
This book looks at the emergence, among some white Christians in the USA, of a religious culture based on shoring up white identity and racism while being "perniciously shrouded in Christian language, expression, symbols and thought forms."

Why MLK is Relevant to Today's Food Industry

Errol Schweizer The Bittman Project
MLK’s economic philosophy is relevant today, where up to 75% of grocery employees are food insecure, where seven of the ten lowest paying jobs are in the food industry, where farmworkers are mostly excluded from basic labor protections.