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The Challenge to the Left in 2024

Portside Moderators Portside
Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? Here is how we -- the Portside moderators -- see it. And how you can help Portside.

Homeless America

Philip C. Kolin
Poet Philip Kolin depicts the plight of the homeless: “They give/American progress a bad name…”

We WILL Fix Climate Change!

The future looks grim. Giving up seems the only sensible thing to do. But that’s not true. You are not doomed.
 

‘Let Us Not Hurry to Our Doom’

Seth Anziska The New York Review of Books
Israel’s insistence on “destroying Hamas” by causing mass civilian casualties and dispossession in Gaza is rooted in this longer-held desire to make “the Palestinian question” disappear.

Billionaires or Democracy, but Not Both

Sonali Kolhatkar LA Progressive
The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations.