Portside

A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan

"A dream come true for fossil fuel companies, but a nightmare for the American people."

Mueller dud; Reparations poll; Betocare; Power of the NRA; Trump, McCain and MIAs; Hudson Yards horrorshow; Sneak peek at Term 2

In his latest film the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil. Us is a movie about marginalization, about those “Americans” rising up from the underclasses and dispossessing the masters.

The strike is the result of more than a year of negotiations between UIC Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) Local 6297 and the university administration. Since September 2018, 1,500 teaching and graduate assistants have worked without a contract.

"The inability of the US left to frame how Venezuela was understood during the high point of Chavismo has left us largely helpless now, a failure of solidarity . . . with ongoing consequences for Venezuela."

As with other Trump impulses, such as his sudden order in December to withdraw all US troops from Syria, no administration official appeared to have been consulted.

LA drivers want Uber to scrap the pay cut. They also want a raise. They want the company to reverse a 25 percent-per-mile pay cut.

As production shifts to streaming platforms that pay players no residuals, their relatively powerless guild confronts the looming threat of "deresidualization."

Studies have shown benefits from diets rich in them but results from randomized controlled trials of antioxidant supplements support the claim that it is better to supply your antioxidants from a well-rounded diet.