How Is Black Lives Matter Winning?
Minneapolis protesters’ call to #ReleasetheTapes exemplifies the movement’s strategic use of symbolic demands to win in the court of public opinion.
Winter 2025
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Take Back the Land!
In a special symposium, Karen Narefsky and Aaron Tanaka offer two visions for socializing the spaces where we live and work.
The Case for Public Housing
In the face of the racism and disinvestment that have hobbled U.S. public housing, the left should not retreat from the concept but reclaim it.
The Transformative Vision of Community Land Trusts
Community land trusts provide a model for a non-capitalist approach to stewarding land—transforming the ways we think not only about property, but about earth and ecology itself.
What Is Democratic Socialism?
A selection of key essays on democratic socialism from the Dissent archives.
Worlds in Waiting: The Promise of Little Magazines
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.
Income for All: Two Visions for a New Economy
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.
Beyond the Wage System
A universal basic income is the best way, at this juncture, to respond to the inadequacies of the wage system.
The Federal Job Guarantee: A Step Toward Racial Justice
A federal job guarantee would go a long way toward addressing racial disparities and building an inclusive U.S. economy.
More Future, Less Work
A universal basic income suggests a new vision of environmental justice.
Into the Cave: Sheldon Wolin’s Search for Democracy
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.
The Polish Right in Triumph
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.
Hate Expectations
Jonathan Franzen’s quixotic war against the internet
Less Work, More Time
Feminists shouldn’t just call for a better balance between waged work and housework—between work and work. We should do the unimaginable: ask for more time.
“Masters of the People”: China’s New Urban Poor
Political scientists Dorothy Solinger and Mark Frazier talk to Jeffrey Wasserstrom about China’s often overlooked urban poor, and how their conditions are—and aren’t—changing.
