Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.
Winter 2025
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The War on Social Programs
The new administration is encouraging state experiments in lean and punitive social policy.
Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate
How do we achieve housing for all?
Know Your Enemy: Ayn Rand Against the World
Matt and Sam talk to historian Jennifer Burns about the fascinating life, and brutal philosophy, of Ayn Rand.
China’s Long Economic Slowdown
The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely what the country needs to achieve healthy growth.
Labor’s Partisans: A Dissent Anthology
A collection of Dissent’s writing on the union movement is out now. Subscribe today to get a free copy.
“The Worst of the Worst”
Guantánamo represents a place beyond the reach of morality and the law, where America’s most dangerous enemies can be thrown, never to be seen again.
The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax
The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
Pride and Prejudice
For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emotion in politics.
A Fragile Ceasefire in Gaza
The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.
Know Your Enemy: The Entrepreneurial Ethic
Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America.
Mr. Lonely
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.
A Public Model for Home Insurance
We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.
The Public We Need
It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world.
A New Suburban Politics
A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life.
The Problem With a Job Guarantee
Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market.
