Booked: The Empathy of Fiction, with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and how the art of fiction illuminates politics.
Winter 2024
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The Limits of Choice
Betsy DeVos’s tone-deaf comments on historically black colleges and universities exposed the broader failings of the ideology of choice.
Belabored Podcast #123: Marching on Mississippi, with Morris Mock and Danny Glover
Actor and activist Danny Glover and worker Morris Mock talk about the March on Mississippi and the fight for a union at the state’s Nissan plant.
A Win for South Korea’s Revolution
What does it take to peacefully overthrow a president? The intrepid citizens who brought down South Korean leader Park Geun-hye may have something to teach us about the power of direct action.
Belabored Podcast #122: Immigrants Strike Back at the White House
Following last week’s Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.
Belabored Podcast #121: Trading Our Rights Away? With Arthur Stamoulis and John Cavanagh
Will Trump’s renegotiated trade deals be any better for workers—in the United States and abroad—than the old ones?
[EVENT | February 21] Winter Issue Launch: The Future of Work
Join Dissent editors and writers for a discussion on the Future of Work with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Kate Aronoff, and J.C. Pan, moderated by Sarah Jaffe and Natasha Lewis and followed by a karaoke after-party.
Booked: Capitalizing on Rural Resentment, with Katherine J. Cramer
Katherine J. Cramer talks about her new book, The Politics of Resentment, and how the right exploits rural-urban divides to promote a populist image.
The Lemming Democrats
Why do they keep marching off the same cliff? Instead of one doomed, issueless campaign after another, the Democrats need a new class politics.
How to Bring Down a Dictator: Reading Gene Sharp in Trump’s America
The Trump administration poses a serious threat to liberal democracy, and we need to respond accordingly. Gene Sharp, the “Machiavelli of nonviolence,” offers valuable insights into how.
Signs of Our Time
The outpouring of witty protest signs at recent anti-Trump protests is something new in the repertoire of social movements. But the thrilling horizontalism that the signs reflect has its limits.
The Petrostate Secretary
Rex Tillerson’s confirmation as Secretary of State threatens a return to a foreign policy driven by the pursuit of oil, whatever the human and environmental cost.
To the Barricades!
As this weekend’s airport protesters recognized, it takes more than courts to defend constitutional rights.
Belabored Podcast #120: Meet the New Boss, with Andrew Stettner
Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation joins us to talk about Trump’s cabinet picks, and what they mean for labor.
Redefining Solidarity
If we are going to spend the next four years—or much more—arguing about the meaning of solidarity, well, that is a fight the left should welcome. Saturday’s marches showed that we are off to a good start.
