Foreign Policy After Trump
Joe Biden promises to lift U.S. foreign policy up from the low-minded nationalism of the Trump era. But the era of confident American hegemony is drawing to a close.
Winter 2026
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Don’t Heroize Pfizer and Moderna
We need to demand that the leaders of rich countries liberate the vaccine from pharmaceutical companies to allow for global production and distribution.
“We Need a Lobsterwoman AOC”: The Future of Maine Politics
In a failed campaign to oust Susan Collins from the Senate, the Democratic Party proved that money alone can’t win elections in Maine.
Will Joe Biden Be the First Climate President?
Biden can and should use executive action to reduce emissions. But we also need policies that can help build a popular base for climate action, connected to material improvements in people’s lives.
Hot & Bothered: A Glide Path to Ruin
Where should the climate movement be focusing its energy in the Biden era?
The 2020 Elections: A Roundtable
Five Dissent editorial board members discuss what the elections tell us about the path ahead for the left, center, and right in American politics.
Belabored: Labor at the Ballot Box
While the presidential race ended with a narrow victory for the Democrats, the electorate revealed how sharply divided it is—what does it all mean for labor?
A World Without Work?
Contemporary automation discourse responds to a real, global trend: there are too few jobs for too many people. But it ignores the actual sources of this trend: deindustrialization, depressed investment, and ultra-wealthy elites who stand in the way of a post-scarcity society.
Hal Rogers’s Kentucky Kingdom
The second-longest-serving Republican in the House isn’t as well-known as Mitch McConnell, but he has pioneered a model of political economy replicated to grim effect across rural America.
A Blow for Labor Rights in California
Gig workers were barely scraping by even before companies like Uber spent $200 million on the successful campaign to pass Proposition 22. Now, two paths lie ahead: one paved by corporate cash, and the other blazed by the workers behind the wheel.
The Rise of Border Fascism
Far-right groups threaten violence amid a contested election. How did we get here?
“What’s Actually Going on in Our Nursing Homes”: An Interview with Shantonia Jackson
The structural conditions shaping care work are highly exploitative—and are profoundly linked to the high degree of COVID-19’s spread within both long-term care facilities and the communities that supply their labor force.
Know Your Enemy: Suburban Woman, with Dorothy Fortenberry
Dorothy Fortenberry, playwright and writer on The Handmaid’s Tale, talks about gender and politics, the work women do, the importance of institutions, the #Resistance, and more.
Ben Fletcher’s One Big Union
Ben Fletcher, once one of the most important black labor figures in the United States, has faded into obscurity. But he couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of the present.
Venezuelans’ Hopes for a Biden Administration
Five social scientists on what the U.S. election might mean for the future of Venezuela.
