Know Your Enemy: Political Fictions
Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
Winter 2025
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The Unity Convention
The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects.
Know Your Enemy: What Happened to America’s Political Parties?
Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
“The Uncommitted Movement Is the Floor of What’s Possible”
An interview with Waleed Shahid.
Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With J.D. Vance?
Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Fragments of a New World
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
Announcing Dissent’s New Co-Editor: Patrick Iber
Patrick Iber will join Natasha Lewis as co-editor of Dissent.
Kamala Can Win
Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.
The Labor Intellectuals
The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
Know Your Enemy: Yoram Hazony’s Israeli Model
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Suzanne Schneider to discuss how Israeli illiberalism is inspiring the global right.
The Constitution and the American Left
A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings. We need an alternative vision that provides meaningful freedom at home and embraces self-determination abroad.
A Popular Front, If You Can Keep It
Biden claims he is remaining in the race because the threat of Trump is too great. That’s the exact reason he should consider retiring.
The World of the Radical Right
A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.
Biden’s Healthcare Problem
Deeply ingrained inequalities—many of which are reflective of the country’s patchwork healthcare system—belie rosy projections that Biden is delivering inclusive growth.
