Portside

Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

Free Speech for Students! (1965), A Message from a Great American (1935), The Pandemic Meets Its Match (2020), The Death of an Unarmed Prisoner (1890), It’s Bigger than Baseball (2020)

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a physician and Palestinian leader, said the statement “indicates dangerous Israeli intentions of annexing 53% of the little Gaza Strip, and to prevent reconstruction of what Israel destroyed in Gaza.”

A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the twentieth century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, captures the horror and insanity of nuclear war. But by portraying the US atomic arsenal as an inheritance from the past rather than a product of our own time, it lets our political leaders off

Chris Hani, the South African Communist who led the ANC’s military wing, was assassinated in April 1993 before seeing the liberation he had fought for. The loss of Hani and his socialist perspective was a major blow to the new South Africa.

As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

Almost 200 years after Nikolai Gogol wrote The Government Inspector, has the Trump Administration brought back the need for humor and satire to address political corruption to shock audiences to awareness of their own implication in the plot.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. In 1972, Congress extended Title VII’s critical protections to the federal workforce.

On birthright citizenship, we can thus follow Lincoln, or we can follow Trump. But we cannot follow both, because Trump is trying to undo precisely what Lincoln and his allies did, beginning eight score and three years ago.