Portside

On Lewis Mumford, Herman Melville, and the gentle art of looking back in time.

The bill fixes many problems, but doesn’t really safeguard Americans’ right to vote.

Lax antitrust rules, cost shifting made billionaire Dutch family dominant force in New Bedford port

The retail behemoth has acquired One Medical, which is in the Medicare privatization business.

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America. The monikers “Great Upheaval” and “Great Railroad Strike” undersell what verged on a second Civil War — this time pitting labor against capital.

Policies that give more money to people at the top are inflationary. If we want to help the working class we have to pursue policies that reverse upward redistribution, not promise the return of manufacturing jobs that no longer offer a wage premium.

For my entire life, white moderates have been complaining about how difficult the people on the side of multiracial democracy are making it for them to win their idealized suburban voters.

When these pregnant folks are forced to continue pregnancies they wanted to terminate, they’re not then continuing these pregnancies in environments where they have access to consistent and quality prenatal care or where they can birth with dignity.

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Much of the Republican Party has been reduced to quivering protoplasm, whimpering under the lash of Trump’s whiny invective.