Portside

“RIGHT-TO-WORK” IS ON the BALLOT.

A local land dispute between indigenous Native Americans and a sand and gravel business prompts California poet Amy Meier to plead for environmental justice.

Trump’s new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement repeats the disasters of the original agreement.

Trump’s executive order will greatly exacerbate this repression with the intention of shutting down all campus activism for Palestinian rights, as promised by his campaign prior to his election.

At the same moment that Trump was riding his horse Xenophobe through a narrow passageway in the Electoral College to the presidency, California elected only Democrats..., extended progressive tax revenues and ...locked out anti-immigrant policy...

High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.

For family coverage, the average premium was $20,843, equivalent to $10 per hour worked for a full-time worker—just two dollars less per hour than California’s current $12 minimum wage for employers with more than 25 workers.

A handful of middle-aged men think they invented the everything bagel. We talked to four of them.