Community Organizing and Kandahar The Obama campaign’s ground game from 2008 has become the stuff of legend. During the final days of the race, it seemed as though the ratio of field organizers to swing state voters was roughly one-to-one. …
There will be a memorial service for long-time Dissent editorial board member Patricia Cayo Sexton on Sunday, October 14 at 3 p.m. The service will be held at the Grand Hall in NYU’s Global Center, 238 Thompson Street, NY, NY. …
Paul (not Ryan) I suppose that wearing a jacket and tie on a Sunday afternoon flight over Labor Day weekend does stand out. Paul, the flight attendant, asked me why I was dressed up. I told him that I was …
[EVENTS] September Announcements for Dissent
Carole Joffe: ?New Life? Trumps ?Existing Life? in the Modern Republican Party
Nick Danforth: History Lessons at the New York Times
Lois Spier Gray: Pat Sexton’s Legacy
Elliott J. Gorn: Paul Ryan, Green Bay Packer Fan
Michael Walzer: Israeli Terrorists and Lynch Mobs
Lawrence Gulotta: Can Architects End the Foreclosure Crisis?
Natasha Lewis: Todd Akin, Julian Assange, and Legitimate Rape
John Connelly: Building a U.S. Student Movement
Sometimes pictures tell the story best. Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change complied and published the results of several studies on renewable energy. The good news is that there is tremendous potential for the use of renewable forms …
William Kornblum: Patricia Cayo Sexton, 1924-2012
Michael Kazin: ?Supporting Our Troops,? Staying Silent on War
