Dissent

Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.

The political problem of the border arises from a broader crisis of legitimacy of the state.

So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight.

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.

Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.

Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes will be a monument to randomness and a lazy, perhaps unthinking, version of the ideology he is supposed to despise.

The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.

A preview of our Winter 2025 issue.

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.

The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?

The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.