Belabored Podcast #107: Controlling Crisis in Puerto Rico, with Héctor Cordero-Guzmán
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has been a long time in the making, but will the solutions advocated by the U.S. government make it any better?
Spring 2025
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Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
Britain’s EU Problem is a London Problem
Huge swathes of England outside of London voted to Leave the European Union, because of a feeling of exclusion that has been growing since Thatcher’s 1980s.
Belabored Podcast #106: Nurses on the Frontline, with Jean Ross
Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, joins us to talk about the nursing strike in Minnesota. Plus: audio from NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro’s People’s Summit speech on why we need to fight neoliberalism now.
[Special Event | July 19] Booked Live with Elizabeth Hinton and Timothy Shenk
On July 19, Dissent is hosting a special event for Solidarity Subscribers. Contributing editor Timothy Shenk will speak with historian Elizabeth Hinton about her important new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. The conversation will be followed …
The Two Sides of Hate
Omar Mateen’s horrific mass murder last week in Orlando and Donald Trump’s vicious campaign for president both signal an alarming return of sadism in American life.
Unwelcome Home: Two Generations of U.S. Vets
In his new book Tribe, celebrated war correspondent Sebastian Junger argues that the primary source of our vets’ postwar difficulties is not trauma from the wars that we have asked them to fight, misguided as they may be. The vets’ biggest problem is American society.
Belabored Podcast #105: A French Uprising, with Jonah Birch
Streets and workplaces in France have been roiling with protests against a reform that would threaten the country’s 35-hour work week. Jacobin editor Jonah Birch joins us to talk about what it means for labor.
Remembering and Forgetting Repression in China
China’s leaders remain determined to control the flow of information about sensitive subjects like the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989. But that doesn’t mean simply pretending they didn’t happen.
Booked: How the 1970s Energy Crisis Changed American Politics
An interview with historian Meg Jacobs about her new book, Panic at the Pump.
A Life in Grassroots Electoral Politics: Q&A with Nick Licata
“Being in the streets protesting arouses the public, but afterward, quiet, organized efforts are needed to get your supporters elected to office so that they can actually change the laws.”
Right to Work (For Less): By the Numbers
Though it’s still hard to judge the full economic impact of the laws, it’s clear that workers in “right-to-work” states face a cascade of disadvantages.
Justice Deferred
Obama’s executive orders on immigration, currently pending at the Supreme Court, would relieve millions of immigrants of the worst burdens of undocumented life. But no matter how the Court rules, even the immigrants who qualify for DAPA and DACA will remain in legal limbo.
Belabored Podcast #102: A Left Turn on the Campaign Trail, with Eric Fink
An interview with Eric Fink, a democratic socialist candidate for State Senate in North Carolina, who is challenging one of the lawmakers behind the state’s HB2 “bathroom bill.”
Jenny Diski (1947–2016)
As Jenny Diski acknowledged, describing things as they are—even the unmentionable things—is the first step to making them one’s own.
