Dissent

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Matt and Sam talk to Laura K. Field about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.

The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the city is ours to make.

An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.

Matt and Sam are very worried.

A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.

Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition.

Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge.

Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010.