Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, and who killed the social-democratic city.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Podcast #129: A New Dawn for Labour? With Ronan Burtenshaw
Ronan Burtenshaw joins us to discuss last week’s election upset and what’s next for the UK left.
Namibia’s Monuments to Genocide
In many Namibian cities, monuments to the twentieth century’s first genocide still stand, and have become a key battleground for activists demanding reparations from Germany for its colonial-era crimes.
How Did Labour Do It?
Putting both the Conservatives and the pundit class to shame, Labour’s impressive gains in yesterday’s election show that a left alternative is still possible.
Belabored Podcast #128: AT&T Workers Rising Globally and Locally, with Bob Master
Bob Master of CWA joins us to talk about AT&T workers’ three-day strike. Plus: we hear from the Dominican Republic about call center workers organizing in solidarity with their U.S. counterparts.
Trump’s Wake-Up Call on Climate
Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.
What Nationalism Really Means
When American Affairs talks about nationalism, it’s a proxy for an imaginary white America they wish existed, but doesn’t.
The Culture Wars Aren’t Over
You can’t call a truce on social issues in one breath if you’re going to gripe about identity politics in the next—especially when “identity politics” means any discussion about the realities of racism in the United States.
[Video] Populism in the Time of Trump: A Debate
Watch Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Tim Shenk face off with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new journal American Affairs, on nationalism, race, and more.
The GOP’s Bad Faith Over Russia
When it comes to the Comey firing, where are all the fire-and-brimstone conservatives who for so many decades made alleged Soviet and communist meddling in U.S. affairs their crusade?
Judith Stein, 1940–2017
Judith Stein was a tough and determined inspiration to multiple generations of scholars and activists.
Belabored Podcast #127: Rebellion in the Streets
Five organizers talk about this year’s May Day, which saw immigrant workers taking to the streets around the country.
Berta Cáceres, Presente!
As tens of thousands flooded Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, they carried the voices of those most at risk for defending the environment: indigenous activists like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras last year and whose true killers remain at large.
Brazil on Strike
In the face of a far-reaching austerity package being imposed by an unelected government, more than 1 million Brazilian workers took the streets Friday for the country’s first general strike in decades.
The Case of Judith Clark
How a young New Leftist ended up in prison for murder, and why she should be released.
