Dissent

For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is the Venezuelan people who should decide how Venezuela is governed, and by whom.

Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film One Battle After Another.

Wang Bing’s Youth is an epic work of people’s history writ small.

To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing (and aspiring) providers.

A conversation with Kate Wagner about Trump’s White House ballroom project and the politics of architecture.

Our most read articles this year.

Our most read articles this year.

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Matt and Sam talk to Laura K. Field about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.