Portside

A new biography of the pioneering African American dramatist and intellectual.

I know what happened at prep school parties in the 1980s. The Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge allegations are upsettingly familiar.

Every leap forward for American democracy — from slavery’s abolition to women’s suffrage to minimum-wage laws to the Civil Rights Acts to gay marriage — has been traceable to the revolutionary river, not the resistance.

Three months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck a potential blow to government employee unions by saying public workers don’t have to pay any union fees to hold government jobs, the decision appears to have had little effect in Hawaii.

Vote Busters; The Kavanaugh Test; Farmers F**ked Again; Co-opting Pan-Africanism; Jordan Peterson Without Tears; Sisters Rebuild

Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.

The fact is that our country is failing on many of the things we hold most dear. And it’s getting worse. America is mired in a social progress recession.

Former UN secretary general accuses ‘powerful’ health interests in the US of blocking universal healthcare

In my whole 65 years I have never heard about 4 members of the UN Security Council meeting without the US and with the express purpose of outflanking Washington Policy! This is both weird and ominous. - Juan Cole

A fresh round of lawsuits paid for by labor opponents pick up where the Supreme Court left off when it blocked a key source of funding.