Dissent

A close look at what happens when corporations police themselves.

An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”

Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.

Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.

Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?

In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—totals that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.

A new right-wing campaign to ban “critical race theory” aims to crack down on teachers who teach honestly about racism. How can teachers protect themselves and their students?

It is time for educators to go on the offensive against the conservative campaign to ban “critical race theory” from schools.

Five short essays by Brian Morton, K-Sue Park, Katha Pollitt, Natasha Lennard, and Asad Haider.

The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.

Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.

We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.