Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.
Matt and Sam talk to reporter Ian Ward about Trump’s victory and the fight for influence in his second term.
Without confronting the economic conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, the Harris campaign could not meaningfully address a deepening crisis of liberal democracy.
Israelis have seemingly grown accustomed to the atrocities of the Gaza war while continuing their day-to-day lives.
A discussion in New York with Dissent contributors Waleed Shahid, Daniel Schlozman, and Lissy Romanow.
Trump has invoked a 1950s mass deportation campaign as a blueprint for his nativist agenda. Its history shows that abuse and dehumanization are intrinsic to immigrant detention.
Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem willing to admit that they were wrong.
Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze in conversation, moderated by Kate Aronoff.
Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein explains what Democrats and the media are (still) getting wrong about the threat from Trump and the far right.
While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.
Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
To become a party based among workers again, Democrats must remember that partisan commitment often grows from local roots.
Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. Consequently, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims.
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.