Portside

Ever since COVID-19 collided with the enormous bubble governments have been using to re-float the financial sector since 2008, booming equity markets became compatible with wholesale economic implosion. That became clear on August 12

Like the 1930s, nowhere are the political and economic failures of modern-day American capitalism greater than in the U.S. South, where a monolith of Republican governors and legislatures are completely incapable of dealing with the Covid 19 crisis.

Even as the energy of the last week is being steered in a safer direction and away from labor militancy, we still don’t know how this story is going to end.

Boseman was a superhero on screen, but his work defending the dignity of Black people’s image on screen was his best. In 2003, after he questioned a soap opera’s stereotypical depiction of a Black teen, he was fired.

The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it

As negotiators begin the 13th round of talks to close the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’s (TTIP) deal, new revelations surfaced regarding Chevron Oil’s attempts to incorporate Investor State Dispute Settlement Courts into the TTIP. These panels threaten national sovereignty because they can rule against a country’s social or environmental laws, if they are deemed to have reduced profits below those projected at the time of the investment.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Michael Chabon speaks with The Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff at the end of his weeklong tour of the Israeli Occupied West Bank earlier this month. Chabon was a member of a literary tour organized by the Israeli group, Breaking the Silence, which collects and distributes testimonies of Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories. He termed the occupation “the most grievous injustice I have ever seen in my life.”

There’s only one way to make sure no more young girls are body-slammed by uniformed officers.

People in at least 30 states are barred from voting because they're unable to pay their court fines.

Can you believe it? We’re in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantánamo, and yet it and everything it represents remains part of our all-American world.