Dissent Magazine

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.

The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.

The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.

In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.

Matt and Sam are joined by journalist Jacob Silverman to discuss the eye-watering corruption of the Trump regime.

Democrats have been telling their party for a while that its leadership has not met their expectations.

The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.

In Power Play, video games aren’t just entertainment but a new front in information warfare, exposing liberal democracies to disinformation, mass surveillance, and extremism.

If Fordism promised a car in every garage, Elon Musk’s worldview promises wealth for those able to command technology—but no commitment to share the reward.

App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention.

The protagonist of the cult time-loop series On the Calculation of Volume lives in the middle of a slow-motion catastrophe, slipping day-by-day into an altered and dubious future.

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

Years of underinvestment in energy, infrastructure, and public services now weigh on Andy Burnham’s premiership. Is he ready for what the fight for an alternative will entail?

Collective bargaining transforms tenants from a category produced by the housing market into a class capable of fighting against it.

Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong?

The U.S. welfare state was built in moments when technical innovation collided with political reality. It can still offer the infrastructure for social protection under an economy reconfigured by AI.

The Chinese electric vehicle boom offers an opportunity to push manufacturers to produce cheaper EVs, while bolstering unionization and decarbonization in the United States.

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.

Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.