Booked: The Language of Deportation, with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience translating in a federal immigration court.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Podcast #134: Defending Migrants through Hell and High Water
We talk to DACA recipients and defenders around the country, from Texas to New York, about Trump’s decision to overturn President Obama’s protections for immigrant youth.
Announcing Our New Editorial Board Member: Patrick Iber
Please join us in welcoming Patrick Iber, a leading historian of Latin America and the Cold War, to Dissent’s editorial board!
Education and the Commercial Mindset: Leo Casey Replies
In his response to my review, Abrams concedes my major criticism: that the book did not investigate the symbiotic link between the school privatization movement and efforts to eviscerate teacher unions.
Education and the Commercial Mindset: Samuel Abrams Responds
My book did not tell the story of the unionization effort at a KIPP school in Brooklyn in 2009 primarily from the perspective of the organization’s management, as Leo Casey contends.
Belabored Podcast #133: Laboring Against Privatization, with Joseph A. McCartin
Joseph McCartin joins us to talk about the history of public worker unionism, the legacy of PATCO, and how today’s workers can build power across the workforce.
Hong Kong’s New Normal
Last week’s imprisonment of three pro-democracy student leaders acutely illustrates the tightening space for civil society in the territory.
How the Forever War Brought Us Donald Trump
And why Trump will only continue it.
Pride and Prejudice
Recent disavowals of Trump may not exculpate his early supporters. But they press the question: what would a real populism look like?
Belabored Podcast #132: What Happened in Mississippi? with Chris Brooks
Last week, in a highly anticipated union election, workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi voted against unionizing with the UAW. Chris Brooks from Labor Notes joins us to talk about the result.
The “S” Word Lives
At the Democratic Socialists of America’s biannual convention last weekend, the young new members making up most of the attendance were out and proud about their socialism. It’s been a long time coming.
Announcing Our New Editorial Board Member: Julia Ott
Please join us in welcoming Julia Ott, a leading historian of capitalism, to Dissent’s editorial board!
When the Surveillance State Meets Donald Trump
Political moods swing back and forth, but the powers of surveillance and repression only grow—and there is good reason to fear what the Trump administration will do with them.
Liu Xiaobo Is Gone, But Resistance Continues
As the world mourns the death of Liu Xiaobo, we mustn’t forget that dissent in authoritarian states, not only in China, occurs in the realm of the ordinary.
Belabored Podcast #131: A Crisis of Care, with June Barrett and Saba Waheed
Home care is one of the most rapidly growing fields in the country, but workers and care recipients will be under threat if Trump slashes Medicaid. We talk about what’s at stake in the healthcare reform fight.
