Portside

A 180° turn remaps world politics

Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.

Reader Comments: It Is a Coup; Trump Vowed To Champion US Workers – the Reality a Relentless Assault; Make America Corrupt Again; Vance, Racism, German Fascism; For Israelis, ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is a Reality. For Palestinians, It’s a Crime...

Vance's Munich speech was a call to arms for the populist right to be able to seize power in Europe, and a promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them to do so.

The European takeaway

Antifascism and social transformation

Reader Comments: Stop the Deportations, Stop the Layoffs, Stop the Administrative Coup!; Here Are 10 Things You Can Do To Resist; Longtime ‘Loyal’ Dem Voters Fed Up With Party’s Inaction; "Innocent Gesture"; 16 Million Workers Were Unionized in 2024;

Times that try the soul

Donald Trump is doing everything he can to convince the world that, under his leadership, the United States is an unreliable trading partner.

First, Elon Musk helped buy the U.S. presidential elections. Now, he is interfering in Germany's elections, by supporting the ultra-rightist party AfD, Alternative for Germany; in German: Alternative für Deutschland. Germany and Europe is protesting.