[EVENT | August 26] Building the People’s Banks
A virtual discussion on postal banking with David Dayen, Courtney “CJ” Jenkins, Melissa Rakestraw, and Flynn Murray.
Winter 2025
- Subscribe
- Magazine
- Online
- Blog
- Podcasts
- Events
- Store
- Logout
- About Us
- Donate
- Contact
- Advertise
- Newsletter
Irving Howe at 100
Remembering Irving Howe, the founding editor of Dissent, on his 100th birthday.
What It Means to Be Liberal
Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
A socialist president would have to navigate with great skill between the rocks of utopia and the shoals of compromise.
We Own the Future
A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for democratic socialism—American style.
Antimonopoly and the Democrats
The antimonopoly tradition once contributed to mobilization, coalition building, and sustained reform across the liberal-left spectrum, and it might do so again today.
Nicos Poulantzas: Philosopher of Democratic Socialism
Poulantzas tried to envision how the left could simultaneously champion rank-and-file democracy at a distance from the state and push for radical transformation from within it.
What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism
The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.
The Venezuelan Crisis
Socialists need to fight against the dangerous and destabilizing actions of the Venezuelan opposition and the United States, while supporting the vast majority of the Venezuelan people in their struggle to regain democracy.
An Opposing Force
The road from critique to power is long and difficult, but the effervescence of the left-wing political imagination indicates how seriously socialists take this challenge.
How Eugene Debs Became a Socialist 
Before Eugene Debs became the most popular socialist in American history, he was an innovative and courageous labor leader. As leader of the American Railway Union (ARU), founded in 1893, he attempted to gather all the crafts in what was …
Hot & Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong
Facing a deluge of doom-and-gloom reporting on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kate and Daniel get together to put things in perspective.
Booked: How to Pick an Electorate, with Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson discusses the numerous strategies Republicans are using to keep voters of color away from the polls, and how progressives can overcome them heading into the midterms and beyond.
All Roads Lead To Wall Street
Calls for unions and activists to transform Wall Street from the inside have proliferated since 2008. But when progressives organize as shareholders, their good intentions inevitably run up against a fundamental obstacle: the bottom line.
Watch: The Future of the Left in the Americas
Watch videos of all eight panels at our conference on the Future of the Left in the Americas, October 5–6 at the New School.
