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Fall 2024
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Know Your Enemy: Women vs. the System
Matt and Sam welcome Dorothy Fortenberry back to the podcast to discuss gender, the 2024 election, and whether or not women can run against “the System.”
Dissent in 2024
Our most-read articles this year.
Know Your Enemy: Trump 2.0 and the Courts
Matt and Sam talk to the hosts of the 5-4 podcast about how Trump can remake the federal judiciary—and perhaps the broader justice system—during his second term.
How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.
Great Symbols Enacted the Age!
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
What’s Next for the New Popular Front?
The rapid fall of Michel Barnier’s government will test the unity of the French left.
Legalized Murder
If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
A Man’s Economy
The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.
Know Your Enemy: Organizing in Rural America
Matt and Sam talk to Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho about progressive organizing in rural and red America.
A Fractured Coalition
A roundtable on the 2024 election.
Know Your Enemy: Trump the Dove? Or Trump the Neocon?
Matt and Sam are joined by Curt Mills of the American Conservative to assess Trump’s national security team.
The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Europe Can’t “Trump-Proof” Itself
Following the U.S. election, European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.
Exit Right
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
Toward a Revival of Left Populism
Progressives need to fight and organize for a politics that focuses on class inequality in a consistent and persuasive way.
