A new digital archive reveals the extent of the federal government’s role in fueling and enforcing midcentury housing discrimination. When Ta-Nehisi Coates’s made his influential “Case for Reparations ...

A dedicated team of volunteers persuaded thousands of new voters to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—and transform the Democratic Party in the process. Miriam Bensman ▪ July 9, 2018 Alexandria ...

Donald Trump’s nomination for the presidency was inconceivable until primary after primary made it all but inevitable—and a mild Indiana spring evening confirmed it. It suggests to many baffled people ...

Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims. Yet Israel will not bring about regional ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Nick Serpe spoke to Gabriel Winant, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt ...

Last night Belabored hosted a discussion on the so-called Great Resignation, Striketober, and other developments in the labor movement in the pandemic era. We were joined by two friends of the podcast ...

An interview with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her new book, The Cosmopolites, and the buying and selling of citizenship. Timothy Shenk: One of the statistics in this book that blew my ...

With the threat of the far-right looming, transforming the “gilets jaunes” into a viable political force that can defeat Macron, let alone neoliberalism, will be no simple task. Jacob Hamburger ...

Our Winter 2022 issue, Beyond Bidenomics, is out now. On Tuesday, January 25 at 7:30 p.m. ET, Dissent board member and special section editor Mike Konczal will moderate a discussion with three ...

If you worked full time at raising money for a hard-pressed public school district or even a major American university, you might be thrilled at first to find a donor such as the multibillionaire ...

The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems. Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Felix Maschewski ▪ February 23, 2023 A rendering of ...

What is work, actually? The question is surprisingly hard to answer once you start to dig into it. But in order to challenge the conditions under which we work, it’s worth actually thinking about why ...