The Rojava Spirit Spreads
Can the Kurdish experiment in radical democracy stem Turkey’s authoritarian turn?
Winter 2025
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War Games
Vietnam shook to its foundations the sense of America that reigned when the Army and Navy football teams faced off in their legendary 1964 game.
Letter from Marseille
As “urban renewal” threatens to further marginalize the city’s poor, Marseille activists are demonstrating that genuine cultural, environmental, and social renewal can go hand in hand.
Bosnia: Still Waiting for Spring
Early this year, Bosnians rose up against their dysfunctional government and the kleptocratic neoliberalism it enforces. But their invigorating experiment in direct democracy has since lost momentum. What’s left of the Bosnian Thaw?
Injustice at the Intersection
How America’s suburbs are engineered against the walking poor
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality
Cities offer the natural solidarities of work and neighborhood that make sustained organizing possible. Their decline spells disaster for American labor.
Mexico On the Brink
Why, after nearly a decade of drug war violence, police incompetence, judicial impunity, and official corruption, have Mexicans suddenly taken to the streets to demand political change? And can Peña Nieto’s proposed reforms do anything to stem this wave of unrest?
The Passion of Mario Savio
Saint, saboteur, or square? Fifty years after the Free Speech Movement, a look back at its charismatic leader.
Inside the World’s Largest Islamist Group
Who are the Muslim Brothers? And what sort of relationship do they believe they have with the divine?
The Neo-Rurals
Spain’s “lost generation” heads for the hills.
A Voice Still Heard: Three Essays by Irving Howe
In celebration of a new anthology of Howe’s writing, we present three of his essays not previously published in Dissent: “This Age of Conformity” (1954), “The New York Intellectuals” (1969), and “Strangers” (1977).
The Best of Intentions: Debating the ASA Boycott
Last December, the membership of the American Studies Association voted to endorse a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Has the boycott effectively challenged academic complicity with the Israeli state? Or has it only further isolated voices of dissent in Israeli society?
The End of the Drug War—Or a New Cartel of Cartels?
This summer, Mexico’s four major cartels signed a pact of alliance. Is this a sign that they’re weakening—or are we entering a new era of state–cartel cooperation?
Stability Maintenance
Can the “umbrella movement” shake Beijing’s grip on Hong Kong’s silent majority?
Charity or Justice? Pope Francis Revisits Liberation Theology
Under Pope Francis, the Vatican has shown sympathy for a radical Catholic tradition. But Francis sidesteps liberation theology’s most revolutionary ideas.
