From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
Winter 2024
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To Win a Green New Deal, Pass the PRO Act
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
Monetary Democracy
The rules of the monetary system are too important to be left to financial elites. When ordinary people speak up, they often come up with better ideas.
A Possible Majority
A political history of the present moment.
Can Biden Be Pushed Left?
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power.
Mr In-Between
Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun and carry most of the burden.
Diversity and the Democrats
The diversity of the initial roster of Democratic presidential candidates pushed all of them to speak about their commitments to battle racism and gender inequity. But it wasn’t enough to transform the political landscape in which they competed.
Know Your Enemy: Know Your Frenemies, with Samuel Moyn
A conversation with historian Samuel Moyn on the Never Trump movement, a collection of conservative intellectuals and Republican operatives trying to consolidate the so-called political center against not just Trump but also the left.
Essential Work
Introducing a special section on the Democrats in 2020.
Morbid Symptoms: An Interview with Ross Douthat
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
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.
Hot & Bothered: Has the Fracking Bubble Finally Burst? with Bethany McLean
The fracking boom that drove a decade of record U.S. oil and gas production was never really profitable to begin with. Has its bubble finally burst?
Hot & Bothered: Designing a Green New Deal, with Billy Fleming
Billy Fleming discusses not just the kinds of policies that should anchor a Green New Deal, but how to advance an effective inside-outside strategy to win them as we gear up for 2021.
Hot & Bothered: A Climate Story to Win a Multiracial Majority, with Mary Annaïse Heglar
Mary Annaïse Heglar talks to Kate and Daniel about climate grief; why we don’t have to choose between caring about police violence and caring about the polar bears; and why Bernie Sanders’s campaign message didn’t resonate with many (especially older) black voters.
Bad Romance
The afterlife of The Romance of American Communism shows that no political movement ever really ends. We bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
