Dissent

Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments.

For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.

John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.

The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.

It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.

In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums.

Many urban governments have outsourced public services to private entities. In Washington, D.C., Uber enlisted the city for its own goals.

To hold everyone’s humanity—that is the task of the hour.

Elected leaders across the United States are in nearly complete lockstep offering full support for whatever military operations the Israeli government is about to undertake. It is imperative to challenge this consensus.

Memoirs of a Weatherman.