Archive | Portside

July 25, 2025

The Icemen Cometh

Jonathan M. Winer Washington Spectator

Our democracy isn’t on autopilot. The machinery will not repair itself. Judges, executives, university presidents, media and tech leaders, donors, lawyers—those with some power—must join the work of defending the legal frameworks that protect us all.

Why Children Get so Many Vaccines

July 25, 2025

Children get a lot of shots in the first few years of life. Here’s why they get them and why they get them when they do.

Trump Promises To Reduce Drug Prices 1,000%

July 25, 2025

Faced with a deepening Epstein crisis, Trump makes gobbledygook drug price promise and points to Obama.

Woman Defends Immigrants at Torrance Car Wash

July 25, 2025

The business owner and a bystander stepped in as uniformed officers walked into a car wash in Torrance, CA.

Freedom Flotilla Sails To Break Israel’s “Engineered Famine”

July 25, 2025

Seven out of the 21 volunteers aboard the Handala are U.S. citizens, including our guest, the Palestinian American human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf.

Everyday People | Turnaround Arts & Playing for Change

July 25, 2025

Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with arts as a strategy for reform. Prominent artists and "everyday people" perform this timely song by Sly and the Family Stone.

July 25, 2025

Trump Labor Department Plans To Gut More Than 60 Workplace Regulations

Stephen Prager, Common Dreams Truthout

Photo - US Department of Labor sign on the building's facade.

The administration is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.

July 25, 2025

Night Owl

Patrick Daly

California poet Patrick Daly reflects on the reach, and limits, of the imagination, where nature, art and politics intertwine in often disturbing ways.

July 24, 2025

McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again?

Paul Buhle Portside

Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.

July 24, 2025

American Jews Were Played — Now What?

Rabbi Jay Michaelson Jewish Daily Forward

It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.