Portside

Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (1969), Voting Rights Victory (1964)

On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.