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Republicans across the country campaigned on crime. Nowhere did it resonate more than in New York.

Once in a while, we – the volunteer moderators of Portside – take the opportunity to talk directly to us – the entire Portside community – about how we see things and how you can pitch in, especially for Giving Tuesday. Our thoughts, in brief:

British workers have been striking since summer of 2022 and it appears the strike wave is spreading.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor on the Robert Mueller probe, about what's next for the special counsel on the Trump investigations.

Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job on Friday which is one of the busiest shopping days of the year to demand higher wages and better working conditions from the online retail giant.

The real problem with the 2022 news coverage is not that it was off target, but rather that “prognostication-as-reporting is utterly dysfunctional.”

A delegation of farm workers lobbied Congress ahead of the holiday weekend to pass legislation that would provide a pathway to citizenship for thousands of workers who provide the food for our tables.

Food history is replete with honored legends, creative stories, slightly twisted truths, unsupported claims, leaps of faith, and outright lies. Actually most new dishes are not invented; they evolve.

More than 200,000 people have been marching in the German capital Berlin to protest against xenophobia and the increasing influence of the far right.

53% view the Vermont senator favorably, 38% unfavorably Nearly four in five Democrats have a positive view of Sanders Ocasio-Cortez's ratings are mixed, and half of Americans don't know her