Archive | Portside

December 17, 2023

Sunday Science: FDA Approves First Gene-Editing Treatment for Human Illness

Rob Stein NPR

But elation over the approvals was tempered by concerns the breakthrough treatments may not be accessible to many sickle cell patients, both are very expensive.

December 16, 2023

“Against Muslims Today Means Against Jews Again Tomorrow”

Iris Hefets and Nadija Samour The Left Berlin

Normalisation and full support in word and deed of Israeli settlement colonialism, apartheid and military occupation of Palestinian territories have paved the way for Germany to once again be involved as a world political superpower.

December 16, 2023

The Leftist Case for Collecting

Charlie Squire The Progressive

The desire to collect is the desire to understand objects as vehicles for human expression, the physical manifestation of labor, knowledge, collaboration, and movement.

December 16, 2023

The Rise and Fall of Moms for Liberty

Maurice Cunningham The Progressive

Reeling from school board losses, the “parental rights” organization is collapsing on itself.

December 16, 2023

Starbucks Ordered To Reopen 23 Stores

Julia Conley Common Dreams

"This complaint is the latest confirmation of Starbucks' determination to illegally oppose workers' organizing," said one unionized employee.

December 16, 2023

A Progressive Democracy Movement To Defeat Fascism

Thom Hartmann Common Dreams

If we don't get it together, people, things are about to get ugly. Very ugly.

December 15, 2023

Dear Human at the Edge of Time

Cassandra Bousquet Dear Human at the Edge of Time

Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!

December 15, 2023

It’s Time for Gaza’s Journalists To Be Treated Like the Heroes They Are

NADIA TAHA The Nation

They are reporting under unimaginable difficulties and being killed in record numbers. The journalistic community should be honoring them every day.

The Forgotten Populists... Would Reject Trump!

December 15, 2023

The Forgotten Populists were forward-looking progressives opposed to corporate Robber Barons. Their impact on America is an inspiring story, one the media too often misrepresent.

How Israeli Settler Violence Forces Palestinians To Flee Their Homes

December 15, 2023

The goat and sheep herders of Masafer Yatta steadfastly refused to leave their homes despite the mounting difficulties posed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers and radical Israeli settlers on the other.