Family Ties
We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
Winter 2025
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The Desperate Need for an Immigration Overhaul
Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
The Not-So-Strange Death of Right Populism
A string of pseudo-populist conservative movements have reverted to the same agenda of tax cuts and deregulation. Why should we expect anything different?
Know Your Enemy: Did It Happen Here?
Is Donald Trump a fascist? A breakdown of the long-roiling debate.
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
Know Your Enemy: Masks Off
A look back at what 2020 revealed about the state of American conservatism.
A Reckoning for the Modi Democrats
Liberal Indian American politicians who have received donations from Hindu nationalists are facing new pressure to denounce the Modi government.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With the Supreme Court? With the 5-4 Podcast
The hosts of the podcast 5-4 talk about the rise of the conservative legal movement and the Supreme Court’s assault on American democracy.
Know Your Enemy: Talking Trump, with David Roth
David Roth, one of the best (and funniest) chroniclers of Donald Trump, takes stock of a grotesque and damaged man as he prepares to leave the White House.
What Obama Wants to Forget
A Promised Land is Obama’s attempt to frame the discussion around his presidency. It’s most revealing where it departs from earlier accounts offered by his chief aides and his own previous memoirs.
Foreign Policy After Trump
Joe Biden promises to lift U.S. foreign policy up from the low-minded nationalism of the Trump era. But the era of confident American hegemony is drawing to a close.
The Rise of Border Fascism
Far-right groups threaten violence amid a contested election. How did we get here?
A Possible Majority
A political history of the present moment.
Can Biden Be Pushed Left?
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power.
Mr In-Between
Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun and carry most of the burden.
