Dissent

What do left intellectuals do when they know that they are too marginalized to change the world? They get busy interpreting the world, of course. And interpreting how we interpret the world, and how the non-Western “Others” interpret it, and …

Even before NAFTA, the United Electrical Workers union (UE) and the Mexican Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT) fashioned a strategic organizing alliance targeting “runaway” General Electric plants in the maquiladora region. The Teamsters union and the FAT undertook...

American discussions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been distorted by two interrelated developments: (1) attempts by some of the most vocal supporters and critics of Clinton’s approach to China, as well as the mainstream media covering their …

IF BILL CLINTON were impeached or forced to resign over the Lewinsky case, the incident might force a national examination of how men in power treat female subordinates. The most important question his alleged behavior raises, after all, is not …

AS BILL CLINTON looked me straight in the eye, tightened his jaw, and denied having sex with “that woman,” I had a fantasy: suppose, on that historic 60 Minutes episode in 1992, he had said, “Yes, I had an affair …

“A quarterly just can’t keep up,” Irving Howe wrote on November 15, 1989, “but we try.”