Dissent was founded in a moment that must have felt as bleak as today, with two principal aims: to “defend democratic, humanist and radical values” and to attack all forms of authoritarianism. For 63 years, we’ve done just that, and we’re not going to stop now.
K. Sabeel Rahman talks about his new book Democracy against Domination, and why liberals need to recover a language of economic power.
The American public does not support mass removal of immigrants. And by turning cities and campuses into sanctuaries against raids and deportations, we have the power to stop it.
The Trump camp’s response to Friday’s statement from the Hamilton cast reveals a dangerous double standard on civility.
Join Dissent editors and contributors to discuss the challenges feminists will face under a Trump presidency, and how our movements can fight back.
From India to Turkey to the Philippines, authoritarian-leaning leaders of major world democracies have refined a set of strategies to make their countries less democratic. Here are five common tactics to watch out for.
Lessons from the autocrats’ toolkit.
We can never allow Donald Trump’s politics to be normalized in the way that Ronald Reagan’s have been.
Without realizing it, Donald Trump has politicized a generation as no other politician could have.
For millions who couldn’t vote, the day after the election was just another day of feeling dispossessed. America under Trump would do well to listen to those who must constantly fight to be heard.
We look at some bright spots from the election, including the story of how a unique labor-community coalition in Arizona helped defeat the reelection bid of the infamous bigot Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Trump victory was far from a slam dunk. But it still showed an alarmingly large constituency for a racist, misogynist revolt against the future.
This will likely be seen as one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history—above all, in institutionalizing the GOP as an unchecked vehicle for racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny.
At this moment, it’s hard for me to hope that the Trump presidency and its horrors will mobilize Americans enough. But it must.
Trump’s America will be a terrifying place. But fear is paralyzing. Rage, channeled appropriately, provides the beginnings of something better: resistance.
