A Unified Story for a Divided World
Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.
Spring 2025
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Do You Enjoy What You Do?
An interview with Sarah Jaffe on labors of love, the women who shut down Woolworth’s, Colin Kaepernick, and why class is not a static identity.
Future Monetary Theory
MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
The Disease Map of Rural America
In the hardest-hit rural communities, the collective immune system was already fatally compromised. They were deep into a decades-old crisis when the pandemic arrived.
Class and the Challenge of COVID-19
In the weeks ahead, the class lines that divide today’s America might become most visible around who must still venture out to work and who can work from the safety of home.
Inequality in the Trump Era
The Trump administration didn’t invent the policies that redistribute wealth and income to the top, but it has doubled down on them in characteristically cruel and petty ways.
The Collective Power of #MeToo
Now we know the issue that unites women across workplaces is abuse by more powerful men, how do we come up with demands that move beyond naming and shaming?
The Class Politics of Teeth
Inequalities in oral health and dental access reflect our deepest social and economic divides.
The Perils of Universalism
The authoritarian offensive has primarily taken the form of attacks on racialized others. We must fight back accordingly.
What Nationalism Really Means
When American Affairs talks about nationalism, it’s a proxy for an imaginary white America they wish existed, but doesn’t.
The Culture Wars Aren’t Over
You can’t call a truce on social issues in one breath if you’re going to gripe about identity politics in the next—especially when “identity politics” means any discussion about the realities of racism in the United States.
[Video] Populism in the Time of Trump: A Debate
Watch Dissent editors Sarah Leonard and Tim Shenk face off with Julius Krein and Gladden Pappin, editors of the new journal American Affairs, on nationalism, race, and more.
Why Is the Labour Party in a Mess?
Since 2015 the British Labour party has sought to distance itself from New Labour and develop its populist appeal under left-winger Jeremy Corbyn. Why hasn’t it worked?
The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter
To seek liberation for black people is also to destabilize inequality in the United States at large, and to create new possibilities for all who live here.
Back to Class
It is time to think about class. The insurgencies we most need today are the insurgencies of large numbers.
