Portside

HBO’s brilliant The White Lotus reminds us that class society permeates everywhere, even on a tropical island — something that US television traditionally does its best to hide.

Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, [into Afghanistan] I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski

The roots of the modern US right lie in the California fields of the 1930s, where large growers ferociously resisted farmworker organizing. It’s a reminder that opposing working-class power has been central to the US right from the very beginning.

Herbicides are losing the war — and agriculture might never be the same again.

Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers

Elements of the current crisis in Cuba and proposed measures to respond.

There is a big difference between the U.S. and Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union never invented exile groups and forced them on the native Afghan population to rule over them.

Poor People's Campaign members understand that what's really underway in this country is a struggle between democracy and potential autocracy or, as Martin Luther King once put it, between community and chaos.

The American security establishment knew that the invasion had failed: the Taliban could not be subdued no matter how long they stayed. The fact is that over twenty years, the US has failed to build anything that might redeem its mission.