Portside

History isn’t a comfort blanket. It’s a human-made map, imperfect, incomplete, sometimes misleading. The terrain changes, but the questions the Lucas workers asked, and the General Strike raised aren’t historical curiosities. They’re questions now.

The two-day event in New Jersey will begin with panels and workshops featuring speakers who worked with Mazzocchi or whose current organizing was inspired by him.

Facing the prospect of paying a bit more in taxes, billionaires are responding calmly and rationally: by calling themselves a marginalized, oppressed minority group being traumatized.

Big Systems, Bigger Profits: Consumers Are Paying the Price of Corporate Hospital Power

In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.

They are taking on debt, cutting back on personal medical care, delaying rent payments and skipping meals so their kids can eat. Federal cuts are poised to make things worse.

The Next Generation of Gene Editing | SciShow. The Most Shocking Election In America. Attenborough's Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter | BBC Earth. Leonard Cohen's Secret Chord from 'Hallelujah.' Hegseth and Patel Iran Press Briefing Cold Open | SNL

This is the second war Trump is losing. Last year solar and wind power accounted for 99 percent of the growth in world electricity supply, while generation using fossil fuels declined.

As you look at Alabama and other Southern states reintroducing racist gerrymanders, don’t think it can’t happen anywhere else. Trump isn’t building a ballroom for the next guy. It’s up to us to hold the line.

The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.