Portside

A pattern of abuse.

The increasingly routine consequence of the Trump Administration’s immigration policy to separate children from parents who enter the United States without papers reminded me of a conversation I heard between Henry Kissinger and Ruth K. Westheimer.

As we mourn the death of21-year-old volunteer medic Razan Al Najjar, Bram Wispelwey, a doctor working in the Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank, shares his account of the political violence and resistance taking place in Palestine.

Jane LaTour has been active in the labor movement since the 1960s. She has worked in factories and on staff for several unions including District 65, one of New York City’s best-known left-led unions. LaTour also worked for the Association for Union

This book describes the cultural wreckage that accompanied the rise of Christianity, thereby adding nuance to our inherited understanding of the origins of Europe's "dark ages."

Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly said that kids would be placed in foster care “or whatever,” and explained that seizing children was intended as a “tough deterrent” against those trying to cross the border without papers.

Amid rampant inequality in America, Disney workers’ fight for a living wage could serve as inspiration for others

David Graeber explores the question of meaningless jobs in his thought-provoking and hilarious new book, Bullshit Jobs.

Planned directive to immigration judges marks dramatic shift likely to affect tens of thousands of migrants

They have assumed that North Korea cannot live without nuclear weapons—without making any effort to understand North Korea’s strategy in regard to nuclear weapons.