Dissent

A discussion on the rise of the “UniverCity.”

Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.

We sorely need one, but that first requires the unionization of millions of new workers.

Historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz unpack the American right’s ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.

In the early 2000s, activists began to campaign against the extraction of “conflict minerals.” Today, violence continues unabated in eastern Congo, underscoring the misguided frameworks governing transnational intervention.

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.

In the spectacularly violent world of Squid Game, exploitation and brutality are built on the illusion of choice.

Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”

Academia once seemed to provide an escape from capitalism. Two new novels question the very concept of refuge itself.

Introducing our Fall 2021 special section, “Back to School.”