Portside

Inflation is a lie, communism is fun, and twerking is important

Cool, elegant, and devastating, a film as tightly woven and plaintive as the source novel itself. It’s an artifact of its time, both 1929 and in 2021, when the questions around identity have morphed and shifted but are still relevant as ever.

The for-profit, private company Library Systems and Services is a major threat to one of our most beloved, democratic and socialistic institutions.

The rank-and-file reform slate Teamsters United has secured victory in the union’s internal election. Its agenda is modest: bargain hard against UPS, organize Amazon, push the PRO Act, and revitalize the labor movement.

Across Ohio, tactics pioneered in Texas are being deployed in disruptive city council meetings

Jurors found the main organizers of the deadly right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law, awarding more than $25 million in damages, but deadlocked on federal conspiracy charges.

Many of the Gen Z generation say they want to join a movement where social causes are part of their workplace values.

The Roman culinary experience, as reflected in the vast amount of evidence that survives in Pompeii, was a great deal more ordinary than we have been led to believe.

The media equation between “woke” and anything vaguely in the realm of social justice allows the right to paint moderate liberal ideas as fringe—an East Coast and California counterculture that is woefully out of step with straight white America.

The threat to the survival of our democracy is clear: a would-be dictator and a cultist political party. A truly multiracial, inclusive, radical democratic movement that has a vision beyond capitalism is key. You can help.