Portside

The Keystone Pipeline, the Socialist Left, the GOP and the Sequester

Rewind - March 3-9, 2013

Some analysts said the move appeared designed in part to take advantage of the ongoing chaos inside Syria.

Students organizing for climate justice on campuses today are drawing connections between the environment and social issues like debt, racism, and immigration.

No nation should own nuclear arms – not Iran, not North Korea, and not their critics who take the moral high ground.

NYC restaurant workers sing and dance for $9 minimum wage. Supreme Court takes on the Voting Rights Act. Wealth inequality: it's worse than we think. Deer hunter to McConnell: "I'd be a pretty bad shot if I needed an assault rifle." We Are Wisconsin: The story of a citizen driven uprising that changed a state and the nation.

One overlooked aspect of the response to Hurricane Sandy can give us reason for optimism. The backbone of the knowledge presented in scientists' Draft Climate Assessment Report arises from efforts of unsung (and unwitting) heroes: people who collect weather data. The coordinated, cross-generational, collective nature of the public data-collection efforts reveals an unexploited strength in our society.