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Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.

In mid-May, two months into the pandemic-induced crisis at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the unions representing 20,000 of the university’s workers came together and held a car caravan to the ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, William P. Jones talks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the author of Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press). The idea of paying ...

The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Dissent senior editor Nick Serpe talks to Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future ...

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Nick Serpe spoke to Gabriel Winant, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt ...

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico in 2018, he promised a government “for the good of all, with the poor coming first.” He pledged to break with neoliberalism and its ...

It’s possible to believe that aesthetics should not take a back seat to politics and still, when things are dire, feel the pull of artists who choose urgency over nuance. Political and moral ...

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...

117th Congress, 2nd Session, 814 pp. When we imagine what it means to live through a political crisis, most of us probably summon visions of extremity: assassinations and coups, depressions and ...