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Belabored: Retail Organizing at REI

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 25, 2022

Retail has historically been one of the hardest sectors to organize, but workers at REI are bucking that trend.

Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 21, 2022

Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.

Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 11, 2022

This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.

Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 8, 2022

Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.

Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 28, 2022

In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.

Belabored: Cyborg Taylorism in the Warehouse, with Beth Gutelius

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 25, 2022

How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?

Belabored: Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 11, 2022

Over the past several decades, the shift of public goods and services into the control of corporations has taken a toll on their quality, increased inequality, undermined labor and civil rights, and made government less accountable. How can we restore our ownership of the commons?

The Todd Gitlin Archive

Editors ▪ February 7, 2022

A selection of pieces Todd Gitlin wrote for Dissent.

Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ January 31, 2022

A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.

Belabored: Trucker Supply Crisis? With Steve Viscelli

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ January 28, 2022

Long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs to one of the toughest in America. What does this transformation mean for the ongoing supply chain crisis?

[EVENT | January 25] Winter Issue Launch: Beyond Bidenomics

Editors ▪ January 21, 2022

Special section editor Mike Konczal in conversation with J.W. Mason, Sanjukta Paul, and Deva Woodly.

Belabored: Dangerous Work, with Debbie Berkowitz and Xian Barrett

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ January 14, 2022

Workers are being asked, once again, to keep working despite a surge in COVID-19 infections. As employers push for a return to “normal,” how should we deal with the risks of returning to work?