Portside

AI-giddy companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have embarked on a national land grab. Meanwhile local residents decry them for guzzling water, driving up energy costs, fouling the air, churning out noise pollution.

The surprise hit series has reopened a familiar debate: why, in the National Hockey League, visibility is still treated as a problem rather than a possibility

Poet Gloria Vando considers who wins and who loses in the new arms race.

As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power - Here's how you can help.

This book is an examination of the intellectual and theoretical mentors of MAGA world.

When food culture became pop culture, a new national persona was born. We regret to inform you, it’s probably you.

With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.

Bari Weiss blocked a devastating 60 Minutes exposé on CECOT — showing how Trump administration authoritarianism flows through corporate media, not jackboot censorship.

Troubadour and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan reminds us that the System, what we used to call "the Man," is still pulling the strings of repression.

With new ingredients and processes, the next generation of substitutes will be not just more egg-like, but potentially more nutritious