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Your Last Opportunity: Let's Make Waves Together

Portside moderators Portside
Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

The Modern Dignity of an Uncontacted Tribe

Kanishk Tharoor The Atlantic
The documentary Piripkura explores the resolve of indigenous people who persist in the forests of Brazil despite shifting circumstance.

The Revolt in the Trenches

Jana Tsoneva Jacobin
One year after the Bolsheviks ended Russia’s participation in World War I, revolutionary soldiers in Bulgaria forced their government to do the same.

The Return of the Strike

Steven Greenhouse The American Prospect
This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?

TSA Screeners Call Out Sick

Rene Marsh and Gregory Wallace CNN
Two of the sources, who are federal officials, described the sick outs as protests of the paycheck delay.