Portside

This new collection of essays, poems, comics, memoir, and short stories focuses on Detroit and the Black experience of summer in the city.

Hundreds of staff members at Hachette Book Group voted to unionize forming the largest union in American trade book publishing at one of the biggest publishers in the United States.

Workers’ rights in crisis everywhere

Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run.

A year after Trump allocated billions for his immigration terror campaign, deportation agents are amassing historic amounts of military weapons.

AI’s displacement of workers will make it even harder to organize labor—and all the more necessary.

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

Waking up

An internet urban legend, now a hit horror movie, shows the vast, meaningless maze behind modern life.

These weapons buy deterrence. Beyond that: nothing. A new Congress can start examining some of the Pentagon’s requests that involve nuclear weapons—and start canceling them.