Dissent

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.

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.

A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.