Portside

We can’t change the world just by posting on social media. But as the 2018 red state teachers’ strikes show, if organizers make strategic choices about their online organizing, social media can be used to build mass militant actions like strikes.

Because there wasn’t an equal amount of matter and anti-matter in the early universe? That solves the problem. Case closed? Of course not. Because physicists make a living from solving problems - so they have an incentive to create problems.

Without putting up a fight, it shelved its own plan to reverse Trump’s course, dimming hopes for peace talks.

The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.

Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.

A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of a momentous African civilization. Great Zimbabwe should be a “symbol”, not just of Africa’s power and potential, but of how outsiders have too often told Africans’ stories—and got them wrong.

At its best, the original Sex and the City took the romantic lives of its characters seriously while presenting them hilariously. But its reboot, And Just Like That…, has sucked all the fun out of its stories.

Amazon has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation.

UNM still challenging labor board’s decisions in court

Dickens' A Christmas Carol was published in 1843. It has not been out of print since. There wasn’t long to wait for Marx’s bestseller, The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848. It too has never been out of print.