U.S. Politics | Dissent Magazine

A New Model of Public Safety

Elizabeth Glazer and Patrick Sharkey ▪ Summer 2021

Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.

Rage Against American Healthcare

Laura Marsh ▪ Summer 2021

In the United States, sick patients spend hours coordinating, haggling, and sometimes pleading with the healthcare system. Can these frustrations become a source of radical change?

The Political Economy of Racial Inequality

Touré F. Reed ▪ Summer 2021

The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.

The Early End of Unemployment Insurance Is Class War

Andrew Elrod ▪ June 14, 2021

If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.

The Conservative Court

Aryeh Neier ▪ Spring 2021

Since the Nixon era, the Supreme Court’s treatment of poverty and racial justice has made it a consistent enemy of society’s most marginalized.

In the face of COVID-19, the political response has been at best temporary relief and at worst indifference. What we need going forward is not just better public health measures, but a response to the economic insecurities and policy failures that it laid bare.

From the Ashes of the Old: A New Deal for Wildland Firefighters

Daniel Boguslaw ▪ Spring 2021

A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.

Majority-Minority Myths

Jake Rosenfeld ▪ Spring 2021

It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.

The End of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Pedro Cabán ▪ April 30, 2021

U.S. representatives have introduced two bills that would finally end Puerto Rico’s subordinate Commonwealth status. But continued colonial rule may be the only option Congress seriously considers.