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In his quietly devastating book Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge argues that all Americans, not just the ones who pull the trigger, are complicit in gun violence.
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Belabored Podcast #129: A New Dawn for Labour? With Ronan Burtenshaw
Ronan Burtenshaw joins us to discuss last week’s election upset and what’s next for the UK left.
The Party of Unlivable Wages
Georgia Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel’s admission that she doesn’t support a “livable wage” is only a candid statement of the mainstream GOP position.
Why Protecting Journalists is Critical for Mexico’s Democracy
Javier Valdez was the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year. What will it take for his killers to see justice?
America’s Health Care System is Even More Broken than You Think
How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?
Why the Labour Party is Not in Such a Mess After All
Labour fared much better in Thursday’s election than many had predicted—myself included. But to win decisively in future, it still has work to do.
How Did Labour Do It?
Putting both the Conservatives and the pundit class to shame, Labour’s impressive gains in yesterday’s election show that a left alternative is still possible.
The Elusive Karl Polanyi
Since the Great Recession, Karl Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. But as a new biography of him suggests, Polanyi himself is an uneasy fit as spokesman for any specific social order.
Belabored Podcast #128: AT&T Workers Rising Globally and Locally, with Bob Master
Bob Master of CWA joins us to talk about AT&T workers’ three-day strike. Plus: we hear from the Dominican Republic about call center workers organizing in solidarity with their U.S. counterparts.
Trump’s Wake-Up Call on Climate
Ironically, Trump’s symbolic withdrawal from the largely symbolic Paris Agreement seems to be alerting the American mainstream to a very real emergency—one that long predates yesterday’s announcement.
[Video] Populism in the Time of Trump: A Debate
Watch Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Tim Shenk face off with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new journal American Affairs, on nationalism, race, and more.
The Price of Life: From Slavery to Corporate Life Insurance
Coal embodies capitalism’s most telling paradox: that the most lucrative industries are often the most dangerous. And from the days of slavery to the present, corporations have found ways to profit from the resulting deaths.
On the Dole with Ken Loach
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake shows the cruelties of the UK’s benefits system, but fails to challenge the idea that benefits should only go to the “deserving” poor.
Don’t Feed the Trolls
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.
China and the United States: Reversing Roles on Climate Change?
While Trump promises to axe the EPA and bring back coal, China’s leaders are heralding a new “ecological civilization.” But are the two countries really reversing roles on the environment?
