Portside

A Canadian Tradition Taken to New Extremes

It’s corporate greed and the GOP will only make that worse.

The President's best course of action is to keep the pressure up on Big Oil by going all in on a windfall profits tax.

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

“RIGHT-TO-WORK” IS ON the BALLOT.

The answer, I believe, is easy – very serious indeed. We as a left must build a politics of broad, working-class solidarity to defeat fascism either now or farther down the road than we can currently envision.

Modern Russian propaganda, much like the modern Russian state, continues to parasitize off of the Soviet Union. Today, it is difficult for political convictions to be born: there is no habit of conscious resistance to the authorities.

“We will be vetting conspiracy theorists to insure that they have an established track record... We want to make a clear distinction between the Dinesh D’Souzas of the world and some rookie crackpot hoping to become a major-league crackpot.”

What kind of society did people live in for most of our history? There is strong evidence that humans lived in nomadic egalitarian bands. This does not mean that humans are naturally egalitarian. Like us, our ancestors faced complex politics.