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From Complacency to Solidarity

Madeleine Schwartz ▪ November 9, 2016

At this moment, it’s hard for me to hope that the Trump presidency and its horrors will mobilize Americans enough. But it must.

A Time for Rage

Timothy Shenk ▪ November 9, 2016

Trump’s America will be a terrifying place. But fear is paralyzing. Rage, channeled appropriately, provides the beginnings of something better: resistance.

Tomorrow’s Fight

Jedediah Britton-Purdy ▪ November 9, 2016

Trump has put us where he put his followers all year: frightened, in a besieged place, a country we do not feel we recognize, in need of a champion. Now we all have to be one another’s champions.

Last Call: Why Leftists Should Vote for Hillary Clinton

Jeffrey C. Isaac ▪ November 3, 2016

If any kind of “political revolution” is to continue, the choice on November 8 could not be clearer.

[EVENT | November 3] The Irving Howe Lecture, with Mark Lilla

Editors ▪ November 1, 2016

Mark Lilla will deliver the twenty-first annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 3, in the Elebash Recital Hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street). His subject will be “On Political …

Belabored Podcast #115: Organizing for Power, with Jane McAlevey

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 28, 2016

Jane McAlevey joins us to talk about her new book, No Shortcuts, strategies for workplace organizing, and what’s wrong with Saul Alinsky.

Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp

Timothy Shenk ▪ October 27, 2016

An interview with Matthew Karp about his book, This Vast Southern Empire, and the international politics of American slavery.

Red Lines, Black Lives

Colin Gordon ▪ October 25, 2016

A new digital archive reveals the extent of the federal government’s role in fueling and enforcing midcentury housing discrimination.

On Blueness: A Conversation with Joshua Bennett

Jesse McCarthy ▪ October 20, 2016

Joshua Bennett talks about writing poetry after Ferguson.

The TPP’s Last Stand

David Singh Grewal ▪ October 19, 2016

A fast-tracked trade agreement of this scale, passed by a lame-duck Congress, would be doubly illegitimate.

Standing Rock: Facing Increased Repression, “Water Protectors” Hold Their Ground

Kate Aronoff ▪ October 16, 2016

Journalist and organizer Desiree Kane brings us an update from Standing Rock, where Native American activists and their allies are gearing up for the winter as pipeline construction resumes.

Belabored Podcast #114: Striking the Ivory Tower, with Harvard Workers

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 14, 2016

We speak with two Harvard workers, Kecia Pugh and Anabela Pappas, and UNITE HERE organizer Tiffany Ten Eyck about the ongoing strike at the country’s most elite university.

Memorial for Bogdan Denitch | November 29

Editors ▪ October 1, 2016

On Tuesday, November 29, join the Sociology Department at CUNY Graduate Center and Dissent editors in remembering the life of Bogdan Denitch.

Belabored Podcast #113: Chicago Teachers Strike Back, with Sarah Chambers

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ September 30, 2016

The Chicago Teachers Union is on the verge of another major strike—one that could be even longer and nastier than the union’s landmark 2012 fight. Public school teacher and CTU activist Sarah Chambers lays out the stakes.