Joy Amid the Ruins in 2018
A look back on the year at Dissent.
Winter 2025
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How Liberalism Failed
After decades of relative stability, Western elites forgot how precious and precarious liberal democracy really is.
Healthy Signs
The Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed, but it has nonetheless made healthcare cheaper and more accessible for millions.
The Faces of Eviction
Sociologist Matthew Desmond discusses the scope of the eviction epidemic—and how ordinary people are fighting back.
Belabored Podcast #166: Raises for Uber and Lyft Drivers, with Bhairavi Desai
Last week, New York established an important new pay floor for app-based drivers. Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance joins us to talk about the victory.
Jeff Bezos Has Enough!
Could a maximum wage gain traction in the United States?
Growing Up After Genocide
Is it possible to love a torturer—even, or especially, if he is your most intimate relation?
Privacy Settings
Today, we are watched as never before, through surreptitious governmental data collection and through corporate profiles of our desires and habits. Yet we also divulge private matters aggressively, seeking freedom through publicity.
The Island the Left Neglected
If the American left is serious about opposing a reactionary foreign policy that preserves unequal power relations, it should speak up for Taiwan.
Wage Woes
Unemployment is at its lowest since 1969, yet the average American worker remains badly underpaid. Why?
Belabored Podcast #165: Communities Unite for Border Resistance, with Cosecha Movement
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
The Condition of the Working Class in Shenzhen
While gleaming shopping malls dot the urban landscapes of China, selling Nikes, Coach bags, and Prada shoes, a more authoritarian regime is making it harder for workers to organize or protest their low wages and poor working conditions.
“We didn’t expect the amount of chaos”: A Dispatch from the Border
“Traumatized, triggered, shocked.” An immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha movement describes the feeling among Central American migrants at the San Diego-Tijuana crossing.
Can We Scale Down Big Tech?
Scandal at Facebook and the Amazon headquarters search charade have prompted renewed calls to break up big tech companies. But we need to go beyond trustbusting to rein in Silicon Valley.
Taking Back the Suburbs
America’s suburbs are no longer the white-picket enclaves of the popular imagination, thanks in large part to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yet the pathbreaking law remains far from delivering on its original promise. Can creative new litigation change that?
