The South Has Got Something To Say
In recent books, Adolph L. Reed Jr. and Imani Perry offer divergent explanations of Southern inequality.
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The Communist Collapse 
SEPTEMBER 7, 1991 The remarkable events in the Soviet Union since the failed coup of August 18–remarkable both for the depth and rapidity of change-make it almost reckless to venture a serious comment as we prepare this issue of Dissent …
Feminists Against Authoritarianism
Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
Drag Race to the Bottom
The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many.
The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.
“A Fundamental Violation of Basic Human Rights”
An interview with Loretta J. Ross.
Sex and the State
Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
Reproductive Rights at the Bargaining Table
A roundtable on Dobbs and organized labor.
The Poetry of a Prison Uprising
A new book of poems from a workshop at Attica in the 1970s reveals how prisoners resisted the dehumanizing effects of incarceration.
“Preventive Detention”—Nixon’s Baby
A drive in Congress to pass some form of “preventive detention” law is the Nixon Administration’s first installment payment on its “crime in the streets” campaign slogan. Proposals currently before Congress range all over the map. Senator Byrd of Virginia …
Iran’s Cinema of Resistance
Independent filmmakers offer a vital portal into the struggle against the theocratic regime.
Memory Hole
This carefully laundered selection from the cultural journal of American Stalinism during the 1930s has been put together by one of its early editors, one of the few who never kicked the totalitarian habit. North has excerpted material (some of …
Letters
I wish to compliment you on the Summer, 1961 issue of DISSENT. It is a constructive, revealing, often startling portrait of a city written by men and women who care about both its present and future. I was especially impressed …
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger
Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” state laws as the most promising avenue for establishing a federal ban on abortion. Much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat.
Abortion Is Healthcare: Lessons From a Public Hospital
Even in the Roe era, access to abortion was limited, hard-fought, and dependent on local conditions.
