For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is the Venezuelan people who should decide how Venezuela is governed, and by whom.
Fall 2025
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Dissent in 2025
Our most read articles this year.
Know Your Enemy: Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom
A conversation with Kate Wagner about Trump’s White House ballroom project and the politics of architecture.
The Child-Care Challenge
To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing (and aspiring) providers.
Solace and Solidarity on the Factory Floor
Wang Bing’s Youth is an epic work of people’s history writ small.
Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another
Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film One Battle After Another.
Public Debilitation
Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.
Partyism Without the Party
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Know Your Enemy: The Furious Minds of MAGA
Matt and Sam talk to Laura K. Field about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.
The Case for a Third Reconstruction
The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.
Coalition Socialism
The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.
Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Zohran’s Promise
The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the city is ours to make.
Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency
Matt and Sam are very worried.
[VIDEO] How Will Zohran Govern?
A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
The Strongman Illusion
Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition.
