Dissent

Todd Gitlin, activist, academic, writer, and longtime member of Dissent’s editorial board, died on February 5. Here he is remembered by his friends, colleagues, and comrades: Michael Kazin, Brian Morton, Susie Linfield, Mitchell Cohen, Jo-Ann Mort, and Jeffrey C....

In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ties the history of global racial empire to climate politics, and asks who should bear the costs of a better world.

By telling her story, tennis champion Peng Shuai has revealed how a violent power structure hides its violence, and the perverse way in which it drags in its victims.

A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.

Long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs to one of the toughest in America. What does this transformation mean for the ongoing supply chain crisis, and the future of trucking?

Special section editor Mike Konczal in conversation with J.W. Mason, Sanjukta Paul, and Deva Woodly.

Workers are being asked, once again, to keep working despite a surge in COVID-19 infections. As employers push for a return to “normal,” how should we deal with the risks of returning to work?

Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.

The left tends to dismiss corporate pandering to identity politics as insincere and inconsequential. It does so at its peril.

The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded,...

If we ask the right questions, we might well conclude that political struggle rather than war is the better strategy for both sides in virtually all asymmetric conflicts.