Authoritarian Governance Is Like a Virus
The COVID-19 crisis has given autocrats an excuse to expand and deepen their power—while making the spread of the pandemic worse.
Spring 2025
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The Occupation at City Hall
The occupation sought to challenge the priorities of a city government that would choose to cut funding for guidance counselors, park workers, teachers, and other social services while continuing to spend billions on cops.
Will MLB Confront Its Racist History?
The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
Remembering John Lewis
In a moment when Black Lives Matter has succeeded in bringing longstanding police abuses to public attention, Lewis’s legacy has never been more visible.
Vidas Negras Importam
For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
Who Gets Protected?
Across the country, state governments are passing legislation that grants companies immunity from any liability for their failure to protect workers during the pandemic.
The Future of Hong Kong
As a new national security law is introduced, we can neither ignore the violence happening right in front of us nor diminish the new struggles that lie beyond.
“I Hope Our Daughters Will Not Be Punished”
From a solitary cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris writes letters documenting the torturous conditions, despite the risk of retribution.
Economics for Black Lives
Darrick Hamilton and Jesse A. Myerson discuss the pandemic, the uprisings, and the future through the lens of stratification economics.
Kościuszko Knew That Black Lives Matter
“We are certain that had Kościuszko been resurrected, he would himself write Black Lives Matter in big bold letters across his statue.”
Could COVID-19 Change Parenthood?
The pandemic is hammering home the unsustainability of American working family life.
Solidarity and the Absent State in Puerto Rico
Last year, Puerto Ricans rose up against a government that had grown corrupt, callous, and inept. When the archipelago was devastated by an earthquake in January, they mobilized an extraordinary relief effort.
Power Over the Police
State violence has no opposition party. Communities that want to dismantle police departments will need the power to do that work themselves.
Irving Howe at 100
Remembering Irving Howe, the founding editor of Dissent, on his 100th birthday.
How Economic Assumptions Uphold Racist Systems
Racism shapes how economics is taught and practiced. When we fail to scrutinize neoclassical assumptions, they perpetuate racist outcomes.
