The Year at Dissent
Looking back at some of our best and most-read pieces in 2019.
Winter 2026
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Belabored Podcast #190: The Year in Labor
Sarah and Michelle talk about this year’s biggest labor stories.
Democracy and Barbarism: A Preview of our Winter 2020 Issue
A preview of our next issue.
Who Closes Hospitals?
A series of recent hospital closures points to the limits of the U.S. multi-payer healthcare system. Private provision cannot guarantee public access so long as insurance companies fuel rising costs.
What Makes a Place Rural?
The 2016 electoral map, with its seas of rural red, has served as the basis for a misleading and simplified shorthand for urban and rural life. These maps suggest different approaches.
The Rise of the Texas Left
The 2020 elections will provide plenty of opportunities for the left to test its vision and build its infrastructure in Texas—from the city to the state level, from inside the Democratic Party and out.
Afterlives of the Emergency
Responding to widespread popular discontent, Indira Gandhi marshaled the powers of the Constitution to suspend the rule of law. Her actions anticipated the crisis of democracy in India today.
Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?
XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it.
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.
Fed Up: The Impunity of Central Banks
The bank bailouts began a crisis of legitimacy that shows no signs of abating. And few issues illustrate the dominance of economic power over participatory democracy better than central bank independence.
Belabored Podcast #189: International Solidarity
How do we reach across borders to build a truly international labor movement?
Can We Democratize Foreign Policy?
An interview with Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—a new anti-militarist foreign policy think tank.
Know Your Enemy #12: She’s Got a Plan, with Rebecca Traister
How does patriarchy condition women’s political careers? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win?
The UK General Election: What Comes after Anti-Politics?
Three years of procedural maneuvering, bombastic rhetoric, and policy paralysis in Parliament—not only on Brexit but on everything else—have produced new depths of distrust in government in the lead-up to the election.
The Left’s Role in the Hong Kong Uprising
An interview with Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social Democrats in Hong Kong.
