Portside

The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.

On the Way to a Major People’s Victory (1979), An Ideological Earthquake (1956), The Novelist Who Started the Civil War, Sort Of (1851), Standing Up for Civil Rights Isn’t Easy (1966), Municipal Workers Flex Their Muscles, But It Doesn’t Help (1971)

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

Despite aggressive anti-union climates, union membership grew in a number of southern states last year. We offer three articles on this trend: one on the south generally, one on Virginia and one on Texas.

The health supplement spirulina is now a mainstream food dye but critics are pointing to contamination concerns. The FDA, based on a petition from industry, ruled that spirulina “certification was not necessary for the protection of public health.”

Since the Trump administration imposed an oil blockade in January, the Caribbean island nation has been in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis.

Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks

Researchers are preparing to launch an unprecedented trial to protect people exposed to Ebola in the DRC and Uganda

The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.

In much of the US, Democrats’ reputation is utterly toxic to working-class voters. Running independent candidates may be the way forward for labor and the Left in many regions — potentially planting the seeds of a new party.