Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Please stay tuned for further Dissent events. Acts of Resistance: Civic Alternatives to Executive Overreach Monday, April 17 6:30–8:30pm CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave New York, NY 10016 Rooms C201/C202/C203 Atossa Araxia Abrahamian …
Tressie McMillan Cottom talks about her new book, Lower Ed, and why the expansion of the for-profit college industry is a labor issue.
Dissent has obtained an exclusive draft of a new Trump administration executive order, titled Protecting the Nation from Various Thingies Owned by Foreign Terrorists.
Join Sarah Jaffe, Michelle Chen, Pam Galpern, Bhairavi Desai, and Rabyaah Althaibani for a discussion about how labor can fight Trump.
Hate crimes like last month’s Olathe, Kansas shooting reflect not only racist rhetoric but a broader climate of state violence against people of color.
An interview with Olympic silver medalist Monique Lamoureux-Morand on why the U.S. women’s hockey team are threatening not to play in the upcoming World Championship.
Novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and how the art of fiction illuminates politics.
Betsy DeVos’s tone-deaf comments on historically black colleges and universities exposed the broader failings of the ideology of choice.
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.
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.
Following last week’s Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.
Will Trump’s renegotiated trade deals be any better for workers—in the United States and abroad—than the old ones?
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.
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.
Why do they keep marching off the same cliff? Instead of one doomed, issueless campaign after another, the Democrats need a new class politics.
