Portside

"The essays in this book," writes reviewer Perlman,"bring out Einstein’s deep humility, anti-racism and socialist commitment."

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.

While public debate fixates on rising costs, the administration’s most serious harm has come from its policies that hold down wages and weaken workers’ bargaining power.

The Massachusetts senator says the party can learn from its winning candidates in New York City and New Jersey.

An effort by New Jersey Democrats is seen as a provocative statement of principle in a state with the country’s second largest percentage of immigrants, after California.

There’s anger in the land

Given his rise during the ego joyride of the 1980s, it’s no shock that Trump’s foreign policy is to emulate that decade’s belligerent cinema

Justice officials are obviously trying to insulate Jonathan Ross from accountability. And four senior career people couldn’t take it anymore.

The NYC mayor said the historic strike is about “who deserves to benefit from this system.”

Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.