Remembering John Lewis
In a moment when Black Lives Matter has succeeded in bringing longstanding police abuses to public attention, Lewis’s legacy has never been more visible.
Spring 2025
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The Case for Universal Voting
Universal civic duty voting would represent a milestone in the two-century-long struggle to expand the franchise.
Mississippi Freedom Summer—20 Years Later
In memory of John Lewis, we feature his 1985 reflections on the Mississippi Freedom Summer in Dissent.
Apocalypse Again
For many people, the world has ended again and again.
Vidas Negras Importam
For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
Herman Benson, 1915–2020
In memory of Herman Benson.
The Return of the Labor Question
Absent a sufficient level of density to carry the swing states, unions are seeking to turn out not just their own members but sympathetic communities as well.
Turn Mutual Aid Into Meaningful Work
Community care as formal employment seems necessary in the face of a disaster-prone future. It could also feel a lot better than any large-scale employment on the table now.
Deep Problems
The center may lack imagination and moral vision, but it has one weighty advantage: we all live in the world it built.
Unsteady Work
The central experience of work in the twenty-first century is one of instability. And yet that experience is largely unrecorded in contemporary fiction.
Know Your Enemy: Pandemic Politics, with Marshall Steinbaum and Sarah Jones
Two special guests, Sarah Jones and Marshall Steinbaum, return to the show to help Matt and Sam make sense of the politics of the pandemic.
Essential Work
Introducing a special section on the Democrats in 2020.
Introduction: Already Sick
A series of short essays on the coronavirus pandemic.
Belabored Podcast #201: Trump’s Latest Migration Outrage
Trump’s recent proclamation temporarily bans guestworkers from coming to the United States, but what does it actually do? Daniel Costa of the Economic Policy Institute explains.
[EVENT | July 9] Dismantle Racial Capitalism
Join William P. Jones, Marcia Chatelain, K. Sabeel Rahman, and Olúfémi O. Táíwò to discuss what it means to confront racial capitalism during a pandemic and an election year.
