Portside

These two books reveal the urgent challenge of combatting harmful speech and propaganda – and the real violence it leads to – in our polarised political moment, writes reviewer Featherman.

Once a government convinces its people that what they saw with their own eyes never really happened, what’s left of democracy in that republic is already on life support…

The US Department of Homeland Security accused the slain woman of committing “an act of domestic terrorism” by “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.

Trump’s blunder into Venezuela and how we got here

Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as an obnoxious, nerdy young 1950s ping-pong hustler who somehow cons everyone around him. It’s flashy, fast, and made with so much talent it’s a shame they forgot to make much of a case

The broadcast landscape changes — fast

Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.

Mainstream media’s nonsense reporting about Venezuela omits the most important truths, including the 1976 C.I.A.-linked torture/murder of the father of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who Trump declared to be now in charge.

To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.