Portside

We’ve identified people in our history who look and behave strikingly like the Koch brothers and their associates—specifically a small group that is mega-wealthy, super- privileged, highly self aware, morally self-confident, ideologically driven and deeply engaged in long-term efforts to seize the levers of government and upend American democracy. By this historian’s reckoning, it is, in general, the Old South’s slave owning aristocracy.

From raising the minimum wage to enacting police reforms, here are ballot initiatives progressives should watch in 2018.

Campaigners prepare for fight against Koch-funded groups.

In 2018, 12 Latin American countries from Mexico to Peru will hold elections at different levels: presidential, legislative and municipal. Of the 12 elections, seven are for their respective presidents in Costa Rica, Cuba, Paraguay, Colombia, México, Brazil, and Venezuela. What are the expectations?

Until now, we could only really accuse House Republicans of ignoring the President’s open attempts to block the Russia investigation. But with the release of the Nunes memo … we can only conclude that House Republicans are complicit in the effort to help the President avoid accountability for his actions and the actions of his campaign

Dutch spies hacked the Russian hackers, even capturing them on film, the new report says.

The ruling was the first time that a federal court had blocked a congressional map because the judges believed it to be a partisan gerrymander.

This US professor is counting on British data privacy laws to get some answers.