Chasing Utopia

Sam Gindin Jacobin
Worker Ownership and Cooperatives Will Not Succeed by Competing on Capitalism's Terms.

California Bill Would Let Gig Workers Organize for Collective Bargaining

Jennifer Van Grove Los Angeles Times
Gig workers include Uber and Lyft drivers, DoorDash and Postmates food delivery drivers, Handy house cleaners and Amazon "flex" workers who deliver packages. They are technically independent contractors who set their own terms of employment — taking as many or as few jobs as they want — but they have no control over wages, which can be changed at a whim by the companies in charge.

Friday Nite Videos -- March 11, 2016

Portside
Warren: Senate GOP 'Paying the Price for Their Own Extremism.' Baba Brinkman | A Brief History of Rhyme. Voters for Trump. The Computer That Mastered Go. Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell | Till I Can Gain Control Again.

Fukushima Five Years Later: Unfolding and Still Uncontrolled

H. Patricia Hynes Portside
March 11th marked the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, one of only two nuclear accidents classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale, (the other being Chernobyl). And while the mainstream media ignores Fukushima’s still unfolding nuclear tragedy; others are pointing to Fukushima’s still intractable problems of public health and safety, radioactive waste and contamination, a grave situation for which no “textbook” exists.

Voters for Trump

Ordinary American voters (SNL) offer insight into why they'll be voting for Donald Trump.

The Computer That Mastered Go

Go is often viewed as a game computers could never play. Now AlphaGo has proven the naysayers wrong, beating a world-class Go player for the first time.