A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
The rapid fall of Michel Barnier’s government will test the unity of the French left.
If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.
Matt and Sam talk to Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho about progressive organizing in rural and red America.
A roundtable on the 2024 election.
Matt and Sam are joined by Curt Mills of the American Conservative to assess Trump’s national security team.
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.
Matt and Sam talk to reporter Ian Ward about Trump’s victory and the fight for influence in his second term.
Without confronting the economic conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, the Harris campaign could not meaningfully address a deepening crisis of liberal democracy.
Israelis have seemingly grown accustomed to the atrocities of the Gaza war while continuing their day-to-day lives.
A discussion in New York with Dissent contributors Waleed Shahid, Daniel Schlozman, and Lissy Romanow.