Dissent

In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.

Why did so many leftists turn a blind eye to Russian aggression?

How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?

Neoliberal globalization shifted the social risks of the economic system away from companies and the wealthy and toward workers and citizens. As this system unravels, leftists must develop a politics of social protection to counter a surging right.

In Sally Rooney’s latest novel, class struggle is presented as just one more thing to be debated.

The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms has revealed an infrastructure problem made worse by the way the United States finances improvements to school buildings.

Over the past several decades, the shift of public goods and services into the control of corporations has taken a toll on their quality, increased inequality, undermined labor and civil rights, and made government less accountable. How can we restore our ownership of...

The return of the dynastic firm isn’t enough to explain the radicalization of the GOP.

Todd Gitlin, activist, academic, writer, and longtime member of Dissent’s editorial board, died on February 5. Here he is remembered by his friends, colleagues, and comrades: Michael Kazin, Brian Morton, Susie Linfield, Mitchell Cohen, Jo-Ann Mort, and Jeffrey C....

In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ties the history of global racial empire to climate politics, and asks who should bear the costs of a better world.

By telling her story, tennis champion Peng Shuai has revealed how a violent power structure hides its violence, and the perverse way in which it drags in its victims.