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Booked: A Suitcase Full of Passports

Timothy Shenk ▪ November 19, 2015

An interview with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her new book, The Cosmopolites, and the buying and selling of citizenship.

After Marriage Equality, What?

Timothy Stewart-Winter ▪ Fall 2015

We must tally not only the advantages but also the costs of the LGBT rights movement’s strategic turn to marriage equality.

Refugees Are Victims of Terrorism, Not Its Source

Slawomir Sierakowski ▪ November 16, 2015

If we give in to the politics of fear, we will only harm ourselves and others.

What Is Democratic Socialism?

Editors ▪ November 14, 2015

A selection of key essays on democratic socialism from the Dissent archives.

Belabored Podcast #90: Offshoring Dirty Jobs, with Erik Loomis

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ November 13, 2015

An interview with historian Erik Loomis about his new book, Out of Sight, on the labor and environmental catastrophes caused by our outsourcing of dirty jobs. Plus: the Mizzou football players, updates in the Fight for $15, and FedEx workers on strike.

Worlds in Waiting: The Promise of Little Magazines

David Marcus ▪ November 13, 2015

By remaining outside the mainstream, little magazines can articulate those demands and alternatives that are just left of the possible. Our hope is that these ideas will trickle up.

Spinning With Obama

David Greenberg ▪ Fall 2015

We should not to take refuge in the comforting fallacy that Obama’s failings have been nothing more than the result of bad spin.

Income for All: Two Visions for a New Economy

Editors ▪ November 9, 2015

In a special roundtable, Kathi Weeks, Darrick Hamilton, and Alyssa Battistoni examine the contending proposals for a universal basic income and a federal job guarantee.

Climate Change on Trial

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow ▪ Fall 2015

We can’t just sue our way to climate justice, but litigation is one tool that activists can use to sway public opinion and hold those in power to account.

A Mind of One’s Own

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen ▪ Fall 2015

The American marketplace of “wisdom” is booming again. A long tradition of feminist thought reveals how flawed it is—and what true wisdom might look like instead.

Into the Cave: Sheldon Wolin’s Search for Democracy

David Marcus ▪ November 2, 2015

Sheldon Wolin dedicated his career to championing not just a new politics but a new kind of politics—one that refused to substitute top-down administration for the messy uncertainties of democracy.

Belabored Podcast #89: Banking on Change, with Khalid Taha

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ October 30, 2015

Bank worker Khalid Taha tells us why he’s standing up for better banks and better wages. Plus: Bernie Sanders on a picket line, sexual harassment at T-Mobile, and a win in the fight against on-call scheduling.

The Polish Right in Triumph

Jakub Dymek ▪ October 29, 2015

The tide of anti-refugee hysteria sweeping Europe brought Poland’s right-wing, autocratic-leaning PiS (Law and Justice) party a stunning victory in last weekend’s elections, pushing the country’s electoral left even further to the margins.