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With Liberty and Broadband for All

Evan Malmgren ▪ December 7, 2016

Why corporate schemes like Facebook’s Free Basics fail to deliver on their promises of opening the “knowledge economy” to all—and what a genuinely affordable, open internet would look like instead.

Liberté, Egalité, Féminisme?

Mayanthi Fernando ▪ Fall 2016

A new generation of minority and Muslim women are taking the lead in the fight against racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration, and a general crackdown on civil liberties in France.

Fidel Castro cloaked himself in protean myths. But learning from his life and the Cuba he governed requires looking past the mythologies to squarely face both the powers arrayed against him and the costs of the decisions he made to confront them.

Belabored Podcast #117: Welcome to the Resistance, with Barbara Madeloni

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 2, 2016

Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni joins us to talk about an election victory for public education, and how labor should respond to Donald Trump.

We’ve Been Fighting Authoritarianism Since 1954. Are You With Us?

Editors ▪ December 2, 2016

Dissent was founded in a moment that must have felt as bleak as today, with two principal aims: to “defend democratic, humanist and radical values” and to attack all forms of authoritarianism. For 63 years, we’ve done just that, and we’re not going to stop now.

Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman

Timothy Shenk ▪ November 30, 2016

K. Sabeel Rahman talks about his new book Democracy against Domination, and why liberals need to recover a language of economic power.

Hours for What We Will

Johanna Brenner ▪ Fall 2016

Mainstream and social-democratic feminists agree that something must be done to ease “work-family conflict,” but disagree on what. The answer is simpler than we might imagine: universal child care.

A Call for Sanctuary

Mae Ngai ▪ November 22, 2016

The American public does not support mass removal of immigrants. And by turning cities and campuses into sanctuaries against raids and deportations, we have the power to stop it.

Mums Against Austerity in the UK

Dawn Foster ▪ Fall 2016

With evictions, homelessness, and deportations on the rise while social services face cut after cut, women are paying the price for a decade of austerity policies in the United Kingdom. But not all of them are taking it lying down.

Kinetic Joy

L. Gibson ▪ November 16, 2016

In Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, a young woman explores her racial identity through a love of dance—and finds a different kind of history, one that is barely written down.

The Next Democratic Party

Timothy Shenk ▪ November 15, 2016

Parties recover from defeat in two ways. They can try to beat the opposition at their own game, or they can try to change the rules of the game. Donald Trump did the latter. Now it’s the Democrats’ turn.

Authoritarian Democracy: A Playbook

Nick Robinson ▪ November 14, 2016

From India to Turkey to the Philippines, authoritarian-leaning leaders of major world democracies have refined a set of strategies to make their countries less democratic. Here are five common tactics to watch out for.