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Will Be Wild

Matthew Sitman ▪ April 18, 2023

The only verdict on Trump and the MAGA movement that finally matters will be delivered through politics.

The 2020 Elections: A Roundtable

Timothy Shenk, Sheri Berman, Adom Getachew, Michael Kazin, Aziz Rana and Matthew Sitman ▪ November 13, 2020

Five Dissent editorial board members discuss what the elections tell us about the path ahead for the left, center, and right in American politics.

Why We Left the Right

Maximillian Alvarez, Sarah Jones, Matthew Sitman and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins ▪ Spring 2020

A group of ex-conservatives explores how they were drawn to the left, and where they think we’re headed now.

The Once and Future Right

Sam Adler-Bell, Matthew Sitman and Lauren Stokes ▪ Spring 2020

The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.

Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”

John Prine’s Poetry of Human Connection

Matthew Sitman ▪ April 10, 2020

Prine was a friend of those left behind by progress and put down by other people. But his songs were all part of a larger universe where laughter and joy prevailed.

E Pluribus Country

Matthew Sitman ▪ Winter 2020

Politics flattens, but the best country music invites us into people’s complex and contradictory lives.

Against Moral Austerity: On the Need for a Christian Left

Matthew Sitman ▪ Summer 2017

Secular and religious progressives should work together to reach beyond blue strongholds and forcefully show that moral concerns are not limited to the religious right.