The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights
The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes. Only a movement can pressure Congress to act.
Spring 2025
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Lana Del Rey’s America
Trump’s election has made Lana Del Rey rethink her patriotism, without losing sight of a resilient, youthful Americana—and hope along with it.
The Specter of Liberal Internationalism
They present themselves as a policy vanguard. But think tanks like Brookings have become startlingly backward-looking and incapable of charting a new path for the United States in the twenty-first century.
So Long, 2017
Dissent’s best from a year of outrage.
Tough Guys
In The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis uses literature to enliven working-class society in a way that neither sociology nor history can.
Cannabis Capitalism Takes California
Starting in January, smoking a joint will become almost as legal as drinking a beer in California. But will regulation of the marijuana industry bring an end to the harms of the drug war?
Christmas for Xi
Recent international accolades for Xi Jinping’s China mask an alarming turn in the country’s politics.
When Black Women Organize
Liberals owe Doug Jones’s win to a rich history of black women’s organizing in the South. When will they really start listening?
Naming Our Desire: How Do We Talk About Socialism in America?
The millennial embrace of socialism has allowed a new generation to draw inspiration from a long legacy of struggle.
Colin Kaepernick: Athlete of the Year
“I am not looking for approval,” Kaepernick has told the media. “If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.”
Belabored Podcast #141: Union for the Holidays
Holiday travel can be stressful, and doubly so for the workers who make that travel possible. We hear about the flight attendants and baggage handlers organizing this holiday season.
Nationalize the Networks
The net neutrality repeal shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?
We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.
Zombie Neoliberalism
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
The Rise of the Security State: From the Great War to Snowden
The American surveillance state was launched 100 years ago during the First World War, primarily to spy on and indict U.S. citizens who protested the war and the draft.
