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For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
Across the country, state governments are passing legislation that grants companies immunity from any liability for their failure to protect workers during the pandemic.
As a new national security law is introduced, we can neither ignore the violence happening right in front of us nor diminish the new struggles that lie beyond.
From a solitary cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris writes letters documenting the torturous conditions, despite the risk of retribution.
Darrick Hamilton and Jesse A. Myerson discuss the pandemic, the uprisings, and the future through the lens of stratification economics.
“We are certain that had Kościuszko been resurrected, he would himself write Black Lives Matter in big bold letters across his statue.”
The pandemic is hammering home the unsustainability of American working family life.
Last year, Puerto Ricans rose up against a government that had grown corrupt, callous, and inept. When the archipelago was devastated by an earthquake in January, they mobilized an extraordinary relief effort.
State violence has no opposition party. Communities that want to dismantle police departments will need the power to do that work themselves.
Remembering Irving Howe, the founding editor of Dissent, on his 100th birthday.
Racism shapes how economics is taught and practiced. When we fail to scrutinize neoclassical assumptions, they perpetuate racist outcomes.
Unwavering solidarity with and participation in this struggle for black freedom is a moral and political imperative—with the potential to transform the landscape of American radicalism.
In solidarity with the uprising sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, we’ve gathered selections from our archives that speak to the political concerns of the moment.
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor is a smashing movie about the informant whose revelations led to the Maxi Trial of the 1980s, which decimated the Italian mob.
Coronavirus infections climb at the state’s only maximum-security facility for women, and those held there fear for their safety.