Lenny Skutnik’s Convention
Over the last several convention cycles, we have seen more and more everyday heroes and victims take the place of politicians on the center stage of national politics.
Winter 2025
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Bernie Sanders, Sheepdog Socialist
“We always knew that this was just the beginning,” says Sanders delegate Sandy Przybylak. “I’m looking to what Bernie has inspired for decades to come.”
Bill and Hillary: Biography as History
What Hillary needed—and got—last night was a biography reboot. If Bill Clinton’s valentine to his wife was characteristically a bit windy, it deftly painted a picture of her as a lifelong progressive who gets things done.
Trumpism: The Fight Ahead
The political task for the left is not just to defeat Trump, but to overcome the conditions that have led millions to support him.
Belabored Podcast #108: Philly Airport Workers Rising Up, with Gabe Morgan
Airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport just voted to strike next week during the Democratic National Convention. SEIU 32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan joins us to explain why.
Trump’s Nomination May Not Be the Worst of It
Republicans have locked down control of the House of Representatives for at least the coming decade.
After Dallas
To ask what the future of Black Lives Matter has to do with Dallas is to believe that the killing of police officers is bound up in the actions of the movement. But this tragedy won’t end the movement, because the movement did not cause this tragedy.
Belabored Podcast #107: Controlling Crisis in Puerto Rico, with Héctor Cordero-Guzmán
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has been a long time in the making, but will the solutions advocated by the U.S. government make it any better?
Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
Britain’s EU Problem is a London Problem
Huge swathes of England outside of London voted to Leave the European Union, because of a feeling of exclusion that has been growing since Thatcher’s 1980s.
Belabored Podcast #106: Nurses on the Frontline, with Jean Ross
Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, joins us to talk about the nursing strike in Minnesota. Plus: audio from NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro’s People’s Summit speech on why we need to fight neoliberalism now.
[Special Event | July 19] Booked Live with Elizabeth Hinton and Timothy Shenk
On July 19, Dissent is hosting a special event for Solidarity Subscribers. Contributing editor Timothy Shenk will speak with historian Elizabeth Hinton about her important new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. The conversation will be followed …
The Two Sides of Hate
Omar Mateen’s horrific mass murder last week in Orlando and Donald Trump’s vicious campaign for president both signal an alarming return of sadism in American life.
Unwelcome Home: Two Generations of U.S. Vets
In his new book Tribe, celebrated war correspondent Sebastian Junger argues that the primary source of our vets’ postwar difficulties is not trauma from the wars that we have asked them to fight, misguided as they may be. The vets’ biggest problem is American society.
Belabored Podcast #105: A French Uprising, with Jonah Birch
Streets and workplaces in France have been roiling with protests against a reform that would threaten the country’s 35-hour work week. Jacobin editor Jonah Birch joins us to talk about what it means for labor.
