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The oldest democratic socialist magazine in the United States. Its tradition will be the tradition of democratic socialism."

Founded in 1954 by a group of New York Intellectuals, the magazine set out to "dissent from the bleak atmosphere of conformism that pervades the political and intellectual life of the United States ...The accent of Dissent will be radical. Dissent has published essays by Hannah Arendt, Erich Fromm, Daniel Bell, Paul Goodman, Günter Grass, Michael Harrington, Dwight Macdonald, C. Wright Mills, Czes

law Milosz, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, Ignazio Silone, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cornel West, Ellen Willis, Richard Wright, Marshall Berman, Paul Berman, David Bromwich, Todd Gitlin, Jürgen Habermas, Hendrik Hertzberg, Irving Howe, Michael Ignatieff, Alfred Kazin, Benjamin Kunkel, Norman Mailer, C. Wright Mills, Louis Menand, Martha Nussbaum, Amos Oz, George Packer, Samantha Power.

22/03/2025

We need the public sector to see that if the landlords aren’t doing code enforcement and rent control, we can do it ourselves.

“Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come.”

18/03/2025

New online: Melinda Cooper on Trump's antisocial state.

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

14/03/2025

If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendment no longer applies to noncitizens.

New online by Wadie E. Said:

If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendment no longer applies to noncitizens.

13/03/2025

The first step in understanding MAGA’s rapprochement with Silicon Valley is recognizing that genuine economic populism has always been toothless and irrelevant within the Trump coalition.

There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of their basic goal: to break the twentieth-century state.

12/03/2025

On average, sheriffs’ deputies shoot and kill more people than the police.

An interview with Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land.

05/03/2025

Murray Rothbard’s ideas may seem like an unstable philosophy for a president, given that he seeks to abolish state authority.

Following the teachings of Murray Rothbard, Javier Milei wants to dismantle the state while also using it to consolidate his power.

28/02/2025

I’m Still Here defies the far right’s attempts to redeem Brazil’s military dictatorship. But the film suggests a tidier closure to the regime’s disappearances than many real families have experienced.

I'm Still Here defies the far right's attempts to redeem Brazil's military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime's disappearances than many real families have experienced.

24/02/2025

"It’s unhelpful to look at renewables predominantly through the lens of cost. When we look at profitability, renewables deployment is not a particularly attractive or reliable business."

A discussion between Brett Christophers and Adam Tooze, moderated by Kate Aronoff, about the climate crisis and the limits of capitalism.

21/02/2025

Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration.

13/02/2025

The new administration is encouraging state experiments in lean and punitive social policy.

06/02/2025

The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely what the country needs to achieve healthy growth.

04/02/2025

New online: Jonathan M. Katz on Trump's Guantánamo migrant detention camp.

Guantánamo represents a place beyond the reach of morality and the law, where America’s most dangerous enemies can be thrown, never to be seen again.

30/01/2025

New from our winter issue: Peter Dreier on the battle over Los Angeles's mansion tax.

The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.

28/01/2025

For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emotion in politics.

23/01/2025

The durability of the ceasefire will be a test not only of Trump's Middle East policy, but also of the world order taking shape around him and the new rules of the game his reelection seems to presage.

The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump's whims.

18/01/2025

There is no marriage or romance, however false and abusive, in Andrew Tate’s world—just girlfriends who are allowed to stay with him for “extended periods of time.”

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

15/01/2025

We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

14/01/2025

Politicians have to create the public that they need, though of course they do not do so under conditions of their own choosing.

It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world.

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