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.
Fall 2025
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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.
The People in the Streets Demand Justice
Unwavering solidarity with and participation in this struggle for black freedom is a moral and political imperative—with the potential to transform the landscape of American radicalism.
An Uprising Reader
In solidarity with the uprising sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, we’ve gathered selections from our archives that speak to the political concerns of the moment.
The Myth of the Cosa Nostra
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor is a smashing movie about the informant whose revelations led to the Maxi Trial of the 1980s, which decimated the Italian mob.
