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2026: A Year of Reckoning

Portside Moderators Portside
As a reader of Portside, you know it’s been a rollercoaster year. While many economic, legal and academic elites rushed to capitulate to a wannabe dictator, millions of people resisted the lawless grab for absolute power -Here's how you can help.

Illegal Immigration

Esther Lin
Poet Esther Lin shares the unreasoning cruelty of her experience with ICE.

Cover-Up | Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, both portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence. 

Europe's Great Power Move: Ukraine Funding

The EU's decision to secure the funding of Ukraine's war for the next two years is one of the most important developments of the entire year. It is a disaster for Russia, and it shows what Europe exerting itself as a strategic actor looks like in practice.

Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI

Sam Altman wants to make a deal with us: he'll give us a utopian future, if we give him... everything. $750 billion in investment. Electricity. Our data. And if that utopia never comes, he'll profit off of the damage.

 

Who Am “I”? Both Body and Mind, New Research Says

Renzo Lanfranco The Conversation
New research shows our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience. These results have implications for treatment of body perception disorders and speak to big-picture theories of consciousness.

It’s Time for an All-Out Food Fight With Trump

Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams
How can ordinary grocery shoppers organize and become part of the movement that is endeavoring to protect society against Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut?