Dissent Magazine

HBO’s Neighbors attempts to capture our mutual loathing and derangement at the neighborhood level. What hope is there for the paranoid suburbs?

An online event in partnership with Boston Review.

Starmer’s leadership has been dedicated not just to avoiding but to actively suppressing any attempt to take the United Kingdom’s problems seriously.

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary Marxism.

Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.

In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won.

If we wish to be a democratic nation, we need to address how a democratic citizenry is created through schooling.

The profound malaise in the United States cannot be addressed, much less solved, by clever campaign strategies and appealing policy ideas alone.

If capital is rewriting the rules of work with AI, then workers must rewrite the terms of resistance.

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

An interview with David Bateman and Julie C. Suk on the state of American democracy in 2026.

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley’s Tomorrow Is Yesterday recounts a tragic tale in the original sense of the word: it arouses pity and fear, though it offers no catharsis.

Public schools are in need of major funding reforms, but any egalitarian vision for the American education system will need to overcome a right-wing crusade to dismantle it altogether.

The memoirs of John Fetterman and Joe Manchin offer revealing insights into two figures granted outsized importance by our broken political system.

Operation Metro Surge was the culmination of a decades-long campaign in which conspiratorial crusaders have painted Somalis as a drain on social programs, criminals, and extremists.

More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.

By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250.