Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor.
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
An interview with Waleed Shahid.
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent.
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.
The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.
A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings. We need an alternative vision that provides meaningful freedom at home and embraces self-determination abroad.
Biden claims he is remaining in the race because the threat of Trump is too great. That’s the exact reason he should consider retiring.
A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.
Deeply ingrained inequalities—many of which are reflective of the country’s patchwork healthcare system—belie rosy projections that Biden is delivering inclusive growth.
The two old men worried to their very cores about Trump came to opposite decisions: Mitt Romney quit, and Joe Biden is running again. Both may have chosen wrong.