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Spring 2024
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Comforting Myths
The 2020 election wasn’t a decisive victory, and Trump and his supporters won’t disappear forever.
What Obama Wants to Forget
A Promised Land is Obama’s attempt to frame the discussion around his presidency. It’s most revealing where it departs from earlier accounts offered by his chief aides and his own previous memoirs.
The 2020 Elections: A Roundtable
Five Dissent editorial board members discuss what the elections tell us about the path ahead for the left, center, and right in American politics.
Now More Than Ever
The virus didn’t break the United States. It found a broken country, and then dug its boot into cracked glass.
Storming the Castle
In a political culture that fetishized consensus, Phyllis Schalfly was a one-woman polarization machine.
How to Build a Winning Coalition, with E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne on his new book Code Red and the power of “visionary gradualism.”
Old Millennial Yells at Cloud
Good politics don’t protect you from the pathologies of the internet.
Two Paths for Millennial Politics
The important issue today isn’t what the world has done to millennials. It’s what millennials are going to do next—and where they’ll look for leadership.
Unknown Unknowns
A lifetime of studying politics doesn’t guarantee that you’ll understand what’s happening now, and having been right once before isn’t much help either.
Already Great
On the dead-end optimism of Parks and Recreation.
Right Privilege
What do American conservatives believe?
Voldemort Politics
“I don’t even say his name,” the finance bro told me as we made awkward small talk at the birthday party. Not that we would need to. He’s Donald J. Drumpf, Adolf Twitler, Covfefe in Chief, and whatever else the …
Booked: The End of an Illusion
Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of “capitalism” outlived its usefulness?
Joy Amid the Ruins
Amid the wreckage of the Trump administration, growing numbers of people are discovering solidarity—democratic socialism, even. Their vision may be radical. But have you seen the alternative?
