Dissent

The child welfare system is a powerful state policing apparatus that functions to regulate poor and working-class families.

For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.

The clash over whether the Trump era represented the rebirth of fascism represents a disagreement about the role of language and history in shaping contemporary political agendas.

Even as their budgets have climbed upward, police departments have deprived sexual assault units of proportional funding for decades. Today, advocates in Texas are trying to transform the state’s approach to sexual violence.

Amelia Horgan’s new book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, asks what work is, why it sucks, and what we can do to change it.

The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.

As infections from the Delta variant rise, so do concerns among nail salon workers about customers who do not wear masks.

Five short essays from Michael Walzer, Aviva Stahl, Elizabeth Glazer and Patrick Sharkey, Randall Kennedy, and Jasson Perez.

Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.

Four short essays by Carla Murphy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Touré F. Reed, and Anika Fassia and Tinselyn Simms.

A close look at what happens when corporations police themselves.

An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”