Portside

Unemployment crisis, chemical weapons, climate change, Bangladesh and more ...

A cynical pawn to move a more diabolical agenda

The young are idled; their hopes crushed. Americans are paying a terrible price for Washington’s folly.

In our convoluted world of constantly flowing disinformation, governments tell us the Web is a “privilege” to be paid for and lost if we misbehave, corporations tell us they invented it, and most of us use it without really thinking much about its intent.

Bill Withers -- Ain't No Sunshine and Grandma's Hands. Elizabeth Warren: give students banker treatment. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues. Stephen Colbert interviews Congresswoman Donna Edwards. The Girls in the Band: documentary.

The detainees are screaming for justice from the outside world, and now they are being heard.

An account of the making of the new DSM questions whether psychiatry is -- or should be -- a science.