Every nation tells itself a story about where it came from. Arguably, the question that matters more than any particular facts is who gets to tell it. For the past year and a half, Donald Trump’s ...

The women of Black Lives Matter are not bending to the demands of respectability politics. They are carving out space for black women to fight for justice. Marcia Chatelain and Kaavya Asoka Summer ...

In the castle-like San Francisco Armory, the Internet porn production company Kink.com hosts live-streamed sex parties where unpaid “guests” are invited to perform S&M scenes for the camera. What ...

Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power. Veena Dubal Fall 2023 Supreme Court justices pose for a photo on October 7, 2022. (Olivier ...

Dylan’s off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own. Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 ...

Dissent is a magazine of politics and ideas published in print three times a year. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. Vanessa Williamson Winter 2021 A composite photograph of South ...

While the introduction of robotics at Amazon is still in an early phase, the technological transformation underway continues existing practices of work intensification, degradation, and displacement.

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily ...

This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange, click here. In the three and a half decades since the Iranian revolution, I have ...

Heller, like Dissent’s founders, believed in making an unjust world a little better, while recognizing that justice could never be complete. Marxist humanism was the subject of our first conversation.

An old conservative-minded contention goes something like this: if you start with an egalitarian ethos, you will bottom out at complete leveling. It’s a slippery slope to the end of individuality.