Bernie Sanders Fiery No Kings Speech in DC     Bernie Sanders October 20, 2025 Common Dreams This is not the end. This is just the beginning. Together, when we stand united, we will create the kind of nation that you and I know we can become. A nation devo…

Journalist Jelani Cobb on Race in Donald Trump’s America     David Smith October 18, 2025 The Guardian ‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argu…

This Week in People’s History, Oct 22–28, 2025     xxxxxx DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (194…

Portside Culture California Enacts Nation’s First Law To Define and Ban Ultraprocessed Foods     Sandee LaMotte October 9, 2025 CNN By signing the “Real Food, Healthy Kids Act” into law, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken control of a growing m…

Celebrating Lenny Bruce’s 100th Birthday: “The World Is Sick and I’m the Doctor”     Bruce E. Levine October 10, 2025 CounterPunch Today, it is an understatement to say that mainstream U.S. society is sick with what Lenny called “false values.” Tip-of-the-…

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present     Benjamin Balthaser October 19, 2025 Jacobin If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism. …