For the 100th episode of Belabored, a special live-recorded discussion with Mark Engler, about his new book This Is an Uprising, and what the labor movement can draw from popular protest.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. And we don’t feel fine: we’re hot, we’re bothered, and we’re making a podcast.
Join Dissent writers, editors, and fellow travelers for a panel discussion and after-party to launch our Spring issue, The Fight for Climate Justice, and our new climate podcast, Hot & Bothered. From the Tar Sands to Energy Democracy: Visions for the …
Jeffrey Williams’s article “Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education” (Winter 2016) is generally on target about one of the disturbing trends in our ever-more-commercializing culture, but I have some reservations about what he didn’t say. While …
An interview with historian David A. Bell about his new book on the French Revolution.
Please join us in welcoming Jedediah Purdy to Dissent’s masthead as a contributing editor! We’re thrilled to have him on board. Read all of his articles for Dissent here, and don’t forget to help welcome him on Twitter. —The Editors …
The first time I heard Bogdan Denitch speak, he intimidated the hell out of me. That wasn’t, I hasten to explain, his intent. Far from it. The occasion was a national board meeting of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in …
The man whom the folk-singer legend Dave Van Ronk, Bogdan’s old friend, called “the mad Montenegrin” was a larger-than-life figure with a uniformly kind heart that he often tried to mask.
I don’t call myself a Christian anymore. I still believe in God, and I still pray, but the word troubles me—suggesting there’s common ground between myself and our country’s proudest zealots.
The danger of Trump is that he is completely removing the norms of public discourse—the same norms that have served to hold in check those unwilling to see their society transformed by greater equality and liberty.
If one thing is clear, it is that Central Europeans will not come out onto the streets solely for an abstract idea of “more democracy in Europe.” The question therefore remains: how to inspire Central Europeans to mobilize for real reform?
Award-winning gospel singer James Fortune’s recent conviction for domestic violence points to a larger problem of patriarchy within the black church.
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act made it illegal for employers to discriminate “because of sex.” We talk with Gillian Thomas, author of a new book on the history of the Supreme Court’s rulings on that little phrase, which have shaped the experiences of millions of working people.
Join Janae Bonsu, Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Mychal Denzel Smith to discuss BYP100’s Agenda to Build Black Futures, a set of economic goals and structural changes that could improve the lives of black people in the United States.
While Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sander’s positions and voting records on abortion may be similar, Clinton has engaged more proactively with the issue, even if not always perfectly.
