Portside

Portland in 2020, Los Angeles Today, the United States Tomorrow?

Now that Trump has threatened to prosecute CNN, what happens next will define the role of the press and the soul of this nation…

In an era of escalating climate threats, we need a stronger public sector with more resources to mitigate risks, help people weather storms, and adapt for the future.

Social housing promises a different path forward.

Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.

Hospitals stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars under the new tax and spending law, with rural facilities at particular risk. Some states are likely to reconvene their legislatures to deal with funding shortfalls.

President’s supporters are gleeful but Everglades jail could prove to be a humanitarian and environmental tragedy

What Zohran Mamdani shows is that the tradition his father represents – a postcolonial critique that is sceptical of moralism, wary of elite consensus, attentive to material structures – is not necessarily an anachronism, but can be a blueprint.

Workers build a democracy of their own

‘Nuclear Weapons Endanger the Human Race’ (1955), Standing Up for the Wrong Thing (1955), Jobless Workers on the March (1935), ‘The FBI Can Do No Wrong’ (1975), On the Eve of Destruction (1965)