Closing of India Street Shows Need for Single-Payer Health Care by Adam Marletta On April 21, the Portland City Council did what it does best: Listened to hours of public comment during whic... Read more
A Reader’s Response to the potential closing of the India Street clinic by Lauren Besanko (Editor’s note) As the City Council debates the budget in April and May, an important issue th... Read more
By Adam Marletta With Donald Trump inching ever closer to securing the Republican nomination, Americans — liberals and more than a few conservatives — are becoming increasingly frightened by... Read more
by Adam Marletta Leave it to the Democrats to profoundly misread voter sentiment in an election year. Less than a week after U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders handily won Maine’s caucus, with his cal... Read more
The two major political parties cannot speak for millennials No matter the outcome of this “Super Tuesday”, I am inspired by the energy spent by youth voters on the Bernie Sanders campaign.... Read more
by Adam Marletta A curious contradiction has emerged between the rivaling supporters of presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders. While Sanders’ supporte... Read more
On the Portland Housing Crisis By Adam Marletta “On the morning of the first eviction/They carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son,” Fugazi frontman, Ian MacKaye sings... Read more
By Adam Marletta Few liberal figures are as simultaneously brilliant and frustrating as Michael Moore. As a filmmaker, Moore has produced an impressive canon of intelligent left-wing... Read more
By Adam Marletta Famed consumer advocate and erstwhile presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, offered a scathing indictment of the capitalist parties’ stranglehold over our elections in... Read more



Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell
Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell by Wells Lyons Dear Senator George Mitchell, I must admit it takes a fair amount of chutzpah to want to debate as august a figure as yourself, Mr. Geor... Read more