Dissent

What can we learn about the history of capitalism by following slavery’s supply chains?

As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.

In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and massively expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.

How do we know when democracy is gone?

Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfillment could be made real.

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content …

An exhibition of tapestries by Tabitha Arnold.

A preview of our Fall 2025 issue.

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?

Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.