politics - Dissent Magazine

Can Movements Stop Politicians From Selling Out?

Mark Engler and Paul Engler ▪ April 13, 2023

Grassroots groups can help elected officials resist the pressures of mainstream political culture.

Feminists Against Authoritarianism

Meaghan Winter ▪ Winter 2023

Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.

An American History of the Socialist Idea

Harold Meyerson ▪ Spring 2022

If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

We Loved Each Other Too Much

Sarah Jaffe ▪ Winter 2022

In Sally Rooney’s latest novel, class struggle is presented as just one more thing to be debated.

Duck Unchained

Paul Cohen ▪ Spring 2018

Equal parts muckraking journalism and biting satire, the print-only, century-old French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné represents one of the most remarkable stories in modern journalism.

The Ideology of Fossil Fuels

Audrea Lim ▪ Spring 2018

Imagining a low-carbon world means revisiting our conception of freedom itself.

Class of ’68

Paul Berman ▪ Spring 2018

What can account for the worldwide impulse to rebel? Fifty years after 1968, a personal reflection on the Columbia University uprising.

Brazil’s New Right

Bryan McCann ▪ Spring 2018

Since Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Brazil has been in political turmoil. With ex-president Lula’s recent surrender, a new right threatens to become the decisive force in the 2018 elections.

Crisis and Opportunity

Adam Gaffney ▪ Spring 2018

The left will not live forever on the sidelines of political power. When we have an opportunity to remake our healthcare system, we must be sure to seize it.

Introducing the special section of our Spring issue.