Dissent

By failing to assemble a coalitional politics that went beyond the ideology and logic of security, Cold War liberals became unwitting participants in liberalism’s decline.

We need to be cautious when we start discarding parts of our intellectual and political toolkit. We might toss things overboard that could inform our political sensibilities today.

A preview of our Spring 2021 issue.

The Mexican president continues to decry neoliberalism, but his government is failing to build an effective alternative to it.

Labor lawyer Brandon Magner discusses what the PRO Act’s ABC test means for freelancers.

The rise of the global middle class threatens to blow up the environmental envelope. Can the link between income and emissions be broken?

Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.

Fear and rage can be an entry point into the rejection of violence against women but not the termination or sum of our collaborations. 

An interview with Gabriel Winant on deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.

A closer look at the Italian prime minister’s career reveals how the tangled history of post-Keynesian economic thought shaped his technocratic brand.

Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States.

To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.