Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? Here is how we -- the Portside moderators -- see it. And how you can help Portside.
Reader Comments: Thanksgiving; Stop Calling It a Conflict, It's...; Ceasefire; Trump's Calling Opponents Vermin, Repeats Language of Hitler; The Real Bayard Rustin; Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations; Cartoons; and more....
Milei's victory is an international marker, of sorts, for America’s billionaires and largest corporations, who share his desire to end liberal democracy and the so-called “welfare state”...
In the 2022 elections, the mainstream media’s lodestar was polling that made it seem like voters didn’t want to hear any more about Trump and January 6th. Tuesday’s election returns confirmed a different anti-MAGA reality.
Reader Comments: Israel-Gaza War - Responses to Portside posts, Letter from Israeli Jews and Arabs, War is the Liquidation of Politics, resources, Action you can take; Kennedy Family Releases Statement on RFK Candidacy; Cartoons; more....
To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance. It assumes Democrats exists to bail out the GOP from their mistakes and provide a bulwark against their own worst instincts
In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme.
Reader Comments: Trump Says Shut It Down, House Goes Limbo; The Race to Be Speaker; Lots of Cartoons; It Could Have Been Me by Holly Near; Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources; more....
Maren Morris, a progressive chart-topping country and pop singer known for hits like “The Middle” and “The Bones,” has announced she’s distancing herself from the genre of country music. “After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display.”
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