Portside

Court-packing! Puerto Rican statehood! Votes for felons! Why—and how—the next Democratic majority should play dirty.

This new volume surveys the changes in U.S. foreign policy as successive governments have downplayed diplomacy. The book is based on first-hand reporting by a prize-winning journalist of conversations with diplomats and others.

“We know that ICE’s actions are inhumane, almost incomprehensible."

The pitfalls of patriotism are everywhere, and at some point those hazards must be honestly faced.

There is not enough space to catalogue all the crimes committed collectively by western countries that now feel besieged by migrants of color.

Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement. Here was a group of mothers who, rather than wanting equal work and equal pay, demanded that the government support them while they stayed home and raised their kids.

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious regional newspapers, The Chicago Tribune, could soon have a unionized staff. On Wednesday morning, journalists from its newsroom informed management that they are preparing to organize and that they have collected signatures from dozens of colleagues.

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).