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Trump’s Wake-Up Call on Climate

Jedediah Purdy ▪ June 2, 2017

Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.

What Nationalism Really Means

Sarah Leonard ▪ June 2, 2017

When American Affairs talks about nationalism, it’s a proxy for an imaginary white America they wish existed, but doesn’t.

The Culture Wars Aren’t Over

Timothy Shenk ▪ June 2, 2017

You can’t call a truce on social issues in one breath if you’re going to gripe about identity politics in the next—especially when “identity politics” means any discussion about the realities of racism in the United States.

[Video] Populism in the Time of Trump: A Debate

Editors ▪ June 2, 2017

Watch Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Tim Shenk face off with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new journal American Affairs, on nationalism, race, and more.

[EVENT | May 26] Populism in the Time of Trump: A Debate

Editors ▪ May 16, 2017

Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Timothy Shenk debate populism, nationalism, and the role of intellectuals with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new pro-Trump journal American Affairs.

[EVENT | May 22] Spring Issue Launch: Capitalism Today

Editors ▪ May 15, 2017

On May 22, join James K. Galbraith, J.W. Mason, Julia Ott, and Mark Levinson for a panel discussion at the New School in New York.

The GOP’s Bad Faith Over Russia

Seth Rosenfeld ▪ May 15, 2017

When it comes to the Comey firing, where are all the fire-and-brimstone conservatives who for so many decades made alleged Soviet and communist meddling in U.S. affairs their crusade?

Judith Stein, 1940–2017

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ May 12, 2017

Judith Stein was a tough and determined inspiration to multiple generations of scholars and activists.

Belabored Podcast #127: Rebellion in the Streets

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ May 6, 2017

Five organizers talk about this year’s May Day, which saw immigrant workers taking to the streets around the country.

Berta Cáceres, Presente!

Michelle Chen ▪ May 5, 2017

As tens of thousands flooded Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, they carried the voices of those most at risk for defending the environment: indigenous activists like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras last year and whose true killers remain at large.

Brazil on Strike

Lucas Iberico Lozada ▪ May 1, 2017

In the face of a far-reaching austerity package being imposed by an unelected government, more than 1 million Brazilian workers took the streets Friday for the country’s first general strike in decades.