The Center Falters in Germany
The decline of the historically dominant center-right and center-left parties in Germany and in the recent EU elections sets the stage for greater conflict over how to deal with Europe’s multiple crises.
Spring 2024
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The European Far Right’s Environmental Turn
As climate change becomes a central concern for voters across the continent, right-wing parties are beginning to incorporate green politics into their ethno-nationalist vision.
Fracture and Polarization in the EU
With just six out of twenty-eight EU member states having nominally left-wing governments, the left needs to consolidate and build coalitions both nationally and at the European level.
Ayn Rand and the Cruel Heart of Neoliberalism
Trump is in most ways a Rand villain—a businessman who relies on cronyism and manipulation of government. Yet he praises The Fountainhead: “It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions. The book relates to . . . everything.”
A Trumpist Constitution?
Conservative judges are advancing a vision of a country divided by religion, culture, and race, where Christians, white men, and corporate interests get special constitutional protection. We need a strategy to respond.
Water Democracy
Farmers in New Mexico have banded together to protect scarce water resources from developments that could end their way of life. Their collective activity is a model for grassroots politics in the age of climate change.
Daniel Bell at 100
Bell never quite reconciled the Jewish conservative and the Yiddish radical within him. This tension helped generate some of his most important and creative insights.
In Memory of Martin Kilson
Long-time Dissent contributor and editorial board member Martin Kilson died on April 24 at the age of eighty-eight.
What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism
The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.
New Youth in China
On the hundredth anniversary of a youth movement that kickstarted the Chinese Communist Party, student activists are using Marxism to rebel against the party.
The Venezuelan Crisis
Socialists need to fight against the dangerous and destabilizing actions of the Venezuelan opposition and the United States, while supporting the vast majority of the Venezuelan people in their struggle to regain democracy.
The Mass Movement That Toppled Omar al-Bashir
The Sudanese protesters’ victory built on a long history of opposition to the country’s dictatorship. Now, they are determined to create a civilian government and avoid military rule.
Making the Monument
At the dedication for the Lincoln Memorial, President Harding portrayed Lincoln as the president who “maintained union and nationality” rather than the president who ended slavery. Changing the monument’s meaning took political struggle.
What Comes After Labor Zionism?
Israel’s founding ideology has run its course.
After the Israeli Elections
The project of rebuilding the Israeli Jewish left can no longer wait.
