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“A House of Dynamite” Is the Wrong Metaphor for US Nukes

Jonah Walters Jacobin
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, captures the horror and insanity of nuclear war. But by portraying the US atomic arsenal as an inheritance from the past rather than a product of our own time, it lets our political leaders off

2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
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.

3 Sisters

Lee Rossi
Poet Lee Rossi invites us into a nightmare, which bears uncanny resemblance to our reality.

Farm-to-Prison Cuisine

Liz Susman Karp Ambrook.com
Using nutritious, local ingredients in a prison setting to cook food from scratch is far from the norm. MVRCF is one of a handful of correctional facilities throughout the country serving fresh food crafted from area products.

America

Laurents, Bernstein & Sondheim
It’s Thanksgiving, and, oh, don’t we have so much to be thankful for?