The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of US Hypocrisy on Drugs     Eric Ross December 30, 2025 Common Dreams For decades, the most powerful state actors facilitating and protecting narcotics trafficking have not been Washington’s adversaries but …

Keeping Power Utilities in Corporate Hands Doesn’t Make Sense     Liza Featherstone December 29, 2025 Jacobin A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New York’s Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and …

The Lie We Keep Telling About Wounded Knee     Levi Rickert December 29, 2025 Native News Online Today (12/29) marks the 135th anniversary of the Massacre of Wounded Knee, which occurred during the wintry week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1890. …

Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth     Bob Lord December 26, 2025 Inequality.org With the arrival of our first trillionaire fast approaching, America’s democracy is hanging by a thread. Disgustingly rich … Musk. , Sean Simmers/AP   I wr…

Portside Culture The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino     Eileen Jones December 28, 2025 Jacobin With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighti…

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — December 30, 2025     December 30, 2025 xxxxxx “The day of peace is dawning” — Eugene V. Debs , Ruben Bolling   The Social Costs of Declining Literacy A Year of Defending Our Immigrant Neighbors In Search…

Portside Culture The Life and Death of the American Foodie     Jaya Saxena September 24, 2025 Eater When food culture became pop culture, a new national persona was born. We regret to inform you, it’s probably you. Craig Claiborne in his …

How Effective Is Protesting? According to Historians and Political Scientists: Very     Robin Buller December 25, 2025 The Guardian From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history Protes…