JPMorgan Sounds the Alarm on Inequality
When even the big banks start to worry about inequality, you know something is seriously wrong.
Winter 2025
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Victory Day Turned Sour
As I was heading to Lynn, Massachusetts to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War with my eighty-seven-year-old Russian grandmother, the last thing on my mind was the war in Ukraine, and what it might mean for the commemoration of this event today.
Belabored Podcast #77: Should the Labor Movement Support Basic Income?
This week, Sarah and Michelle invited Hack the Union editor Kati Sipp to explain universal basic income, and why it’s an important idea for workers. They discuss automation, which parts of the social safety net UBI would replace, and what it has to do with the unwaged work that women do in the home.
Israel’s #BlackLivesMatter Moment?
Ethiopian-Israelis face systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of the police. But comparisons to #BlackLivesMatter in the United States do not capture the complexities of their situation.
Booked #4: What Did Race Mean to W.E.B. Du Bois?
Tim Shenk talked with Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, about how Du Bois’s experiences as a black American shaped his theories of race, and how his theories relate to politics then and now.
Bernie’s Prospects
Why is a seventy-three-year-old socialist from Vermont running for president when he surely knows he can’t win? Senator Bernie Sanders has decided to take the plunge into forbidding waters for the same reason earlier socialists campaigned for the office: to …
Marilyn Bensman, 1925–2015
Dissent is deeply saddened at the loss of Dr. Marilyn Bensman, a fighter, radical, feminist, and sociologist who taught at Lehman College. She was a longtime reader and supporter of Dissent. Funeral services will be held at Plaza Jewish Community Chapel at …
Belabored Podcast #76: May Day Special! Labor Shuts It Down From Baltimore to Long Beach
This May Day, we bring you voices from the streets of Baltimore and Long Beach—where unions are helping mobilize their communities against police terror and for economic justice—and from a West Coast Walmart, where activist Venanzi Luna has been leading the fight against union-busting. Plus: Whatever happened to the eight-hour day?
Border City Blues
It is no coincidence that the starkest reactions to police violence—from Ferguson to Baltimore—have flared in cities strung along the Mason-Dixon Line.
American Violence from Baltimore to Baghdad
This article originally appeared at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The choice of weapons is important because it radically affects what we are, and at stake in that choice is the risk of losing our soul. —Grégoire Chamayou I was reading …
Belabored Podcast #75: What’s Next in the Fight for $15?
Following Wednesday’s nationwide protests for a living wage, Sarah and Michelle spoke with workers in New York and Atlanta about why they joined the Fight for $15 movement and what they hope it will achieve.
[VIDEO] Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders
In February, Dissent and the India-China Institute co-hosted a panel on “Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders” at the New School, with Alexis Dudden speaking on Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Nina Khrushcheva on Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Ross Perlin on China’s Xi Jinping, and Sanjay Ruparelia on India’s Narendra Modi. The panel was moderated by Dissent editorial board member Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Introducing the Solidarity Sub
Dissent has always been more than just the sum of its writing. It is a political community, across several generations and at least as many continents; a forum for debating visions of social change; a vehicle for advancing radical and egalitarian ideals.
These are the enduring ideals of the left—our striving for social and economic equality, our faith in our collective ability to enact democratic change. Over several decades, some of the left’s sharpest writers have given voice to these ideals in our pages.
Belabored #74: Labor Pains, with Melissa Josephs and Latavia Johnson
Following last week’s Supreme Court decision that UPS had unfairly denied a pregnant worker reasonable accommodations on the job, Belabored talked with Melissa Josephs, from Women Employed, an Illinois-based organization that successfully campaigned for a new state law to protect pregnant worker’s rights, and Latavia Johnson, a Walmart worker in Illinois.
Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?
Tim Shenk spoke with political scientist Wendy Brown about her new book, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, and the political consequences of viewing the world as an enormous marketplace.
