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Raphael Warnock’s impressive win in Georgia not only gives the Democrats crucial control of committees in the next session of Congress. 51-49 is far more powerful than 50-50—and provides some insurance for 2024.

Many causes, multiple protests and strikes, one world

History’s first fascist regime violently seized power in Italy in 1922. It continues to inspire the far right a century later.

The attorney general of Louisiana has launched an online form encouraging residents of the state to report librarians who they suspect of stocking sexually explicit books—or anything else they might object to being seen by their kids.

Georgia Yes! Raphael Warnock put Georgia on our minds, and Georgia delivered. Portside works to put the most important issues on our minds every day. Once a year, we ask for your help to do so. This is that time.

Suggestions that the Supreme Court could adopt parts of the dangerous theory without upending elections are wrong.

Don’t be fooled that this is meaningful reform. It’s about regime self-preservation.

Music is making a comeback in movement spaces, as organizers rediscover how song culture strengthens the capacity to create social change.

Republican politicians in Washington have been clear about how they plan to force Social Security cuts into law—and Walker would have been a rubber stamp for that plan.

Director Elegance Bratton tells Jezebel how he, like his film's protagonist, survived homophobia, homelessness, and the military.