Toxic Finance
The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms has revealed an infrastructure problem made worse by the way the United States finances improvements to school buildings.
Spring 2025
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Focus On the Family?
The return of the dynastic firm isn’t enough to explain the radicalization of the GOP.
Todd Gitlin, 1943–2022
Todd Gitlin, activist, academic, writer, and longtime member of Dissent’s editorial board, died on February 5. Here he is remembered by his friends, colleagues, and comrades.
How to Repair the Planet
In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò makes the case for a political project with a global scope.
The Irrepressible Strength of Peng Shuai
By telling her story, tennis champion Peng Shuai revealed how a violent power structure hides its violence, and the perverse way in which it drags in its victims.
Can We Democratize AI?
Artificial intelligence has often been adopted in ways that reinforce exploitation and domination. But that doesn’t mean we should greet all new AI tools with refusal.
Feminists on All Sides
Desire is shaped by social assumptions and prejudices, Amia Srinivasan argues in The Right to Sex. So what does one do about it?
The End of Neoliberalism in Chile?
The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile.
The Deep History of Climate Change
An interview with Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
Vaccine Nationalism
The world’s richest countries have undermined the international cooperation we need to end this pandemic.
Chevron’s Intimidation Campaign
The oil company hopes that the imprisonment of Steven Donziger has a chilling effect on environmental litigation. But it might have galvanized a new generation to take on the fossil fuel industry.
The Politics of Protection
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
Why Do We Call the Police?
An interview with Derecka Purnell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists, about what makes communities unsafe—and how she went from calling 911 to fighting for abolition.
S.M. “Mike” Miller, a Pioneering Scholar-Activist (1922–2021)
A prolific writer and researcher for seven decades, Miller’s greatest talent was putting that knowledge to work on behalf of activist groups in the United States and around the world.
The Fearlessness of Passing
Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
