Portside

Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

Twitter canceling Trump’s account shows that real political power in the United States shifted from government to corporations.

Hank Aaron will be remembered for his astonishing achievements as one of the all-time great baseball players, not least because he broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. But Aaron also ceaselessly fought to defend black people in a hostile racist society

Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), a Review by Lola Loustaunau

Employers are alleged to be leveraging coronavirus-induced unemployment to mount an assault on collective bargaining.

I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal.

The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad.

Every part of this country, north south east and west, owes its origin and wealth to our “peculiar institution” as well as other less notorious programs of government sanctioned/ignored exploitation and murder of the poor, immigrants, women.

The demand is still, more than ever, #DefundThePolice, #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives.

Among the 16 senators in all who were part of the effort to overturn the presidential election, rank of lawyers and lobbyists among the top industry contributors to their campaigns, according to the latest data from FollowTheMoney.org.