Portside

Yet transparency is essential to democracy, so that citizens, rather than an elite, make decisions, especially when it comes to life-or-death issues.

Flame retardant,Walmart,Netanyahu,Black Friday,Afghanistan,pensions,Karzai

1,500 demonstrations were held across the country today at Walmart stores. As reports are coming in, 110 people have been arrested.

Do dogs "listen in" to interactions among human beings, and learn who it is best to beg from? Yup.

Vermont is the home of Ben and Jerry’s, maple syrup, Bernie Sanders and the first state to pass marriage equality. Now, Vermont will be known for something that will impact every resident in the state -- a single payer health care system.

Although the great red scare of the 1950s almost erased the anti-lynching song Strange Fruit from the public arena, the strange fruit allusion - lynched bodies hanging from trees – was one of genius. It had gotten under our culture’s skin, and as time went on, it seeped out of its pores.