Portside

Democracy is not an abstract

The US and Israel appear to have misjudged not only Iran’s capabilities, but the political, economic and historical terrain on which this war is being fought.

What I witnessed over those days was not the Cuba of Western propaganda. It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.

Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.

As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.

New York City Mayor Mamdani announced that municipal workers across the city will be able to get free child care at a new center being built.

Of all the blood-soaked actioners of the '80s, Norris' Cannon canon was the most shamelessly xenophobic.

Fresh hell on the media front

The war in Iran is testing the operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it

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