Portside

As the world churns... and burns

These beautifully written letters, diary entries and extracts from novels, skillfully edited by Peter Parker, add up to an essential study of postwar gay life.

Saying that city officials have been unwilling to address unions’ concerns, the United Federation of Teachers has withdrawn its support for an Adams administration effort to switch municipal retirees to a cost-saving private health plan.

Lost in the triumphalism over Jamaal Bowman’s loss is that AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most already vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength.

Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.

Israel’s Ministry Of Diaspora Affairs Funds US-Based Organizations To Lobby For Measures Restricting Criticism Of Israel And Its Ongoing Genocide In Gaza.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro said Republicans' newly proposed funding cuts threaten "the future of an entire generation."

Can artificial intelligence destroy the climate?

In the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, for the first time in our history, rather than conveying rights, the court explicitly took a constitutional right away from the American people.

Human rights organisations want the next UK government to seek assurances from the US that it will not pursue journalists publishing classified information