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Our Winter 2024 issue, THE GLOBAL LEFT, is out now.
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The coronavirus has exposed how little remains of the “one country, two systems” framework.
@jwassers
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"How to grieve, what meaning to give those tears, is cruelly a political question whether we like it or not,"
@gabrielwinant
writes.
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Dissent is launching a program to publish emerging writers and new voices. Accepted applicants will work closely with a member of our editorial board to refine their work prior to publication.
Pitches accepted until July 1, 2022.
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From Arizona to Puerto Rico to France, South Korea, and beyond, solidarity to everyone in the streets today for workers' rights
#MayDay
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The repeal of
#NetNeutrality
shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
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Earnestness, it turned out, could be every bit as narcissistic and empty as cynicism.
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Those concerned about black women’s votes may want to study the incredible history of black women’s organizing in the South.
@DrMChatelain
:
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"More than any previous Hong Kong protest, the 2019 anti-extradition movement embodies bitter anguish over the city’s place in a world that no longer seems to need it,"
@wilfredchan
writes
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As liberal comedians flounder, Chapo Trap House issues a welcome corrective.
@onesarahjones
:
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Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse.
From our archives,
@tressiemcphd
on why free college is necessary:
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Dissent is hiring an associate editor. The role will favor an organized, self-motivated junior editor with diverse skills who is comfortable working with a small team, eager to learn, and has a desire to see the magazine grow and succeed.
Apply now:
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We are thrilled to announce
@KateAronoff
as the newest member of Dissent’s editorial board! Please join us in welcoming her 🎉🎉🎉
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Abolition Geography offers an “immense depth of resources for understanding the force, threat, and causes of freshly inflamed concern over crime,”
@unit01barbie
writes.
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On the latest episode of
@KnowYrEnemyPod
, a deep dive on the Chicago school of economics and the damaging influence of libertarian ideas (w
@Econ_Marshall
)
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Burnout is not a problem we can individually solve. It is a symptom of a world set up to exhaust us to the point where we cannot resist.
New from
@sarahljaffe
:
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We are thrilled to announce that
@TashMLewis
is joining
@Tim_Shenk
as co-editor.
Join us in welcoming her & 8 new editorial board members:
@alybatt
,
@debhartha
,
@AdomGetachew
,
@onesarahjones
,
@willpjones3
, Aziz Rana,
@MatthewSitman
, &
@gabrielwinant
.
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"With economic liberalization came a revaluation of people’s self-worth: to be a somebody, you had to have money, influence, and the right last name."
@alejandramatus
on the history behind the recent protests in Chile:
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South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.
By
@dcli
:
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"We can’t just abolish the police and leave capitalism intact, because then we’re still going to have an unequal society that will figure out other ways to do that policing work,"
@dereckapurnell
argues.
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Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
New from
@V_Williamson
:
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An interview with
@ManYuen_Ng
on the left and Hong Kong: "what makes HK such a unique place is its pure neoliberalism, capitalism to the extreme: a free flow of capital with almost no regulation or oversight and a complete lack of labor protections."
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Abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories, laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
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48,000 academic workers are on strike at the University of California, reminding
@NelsonLichtens1
of "one of the
@UAW
’s epic showdowns with General Motors or Ford during the mid-twentieth century, when that union was 'the vanguard in America.'"
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Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living,
@onesarahjones
writes
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It's a beautiful day to read our latest issue about climate change—and how we can fight it.
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Putin sees Russian statehood and Russian national and linguistic identity as inextricably connected, and he is willing to spill Russian and Ukrainian blood to protect this nationalist vision.
By Gregory Afinogenov:
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Our summer 2019 issue - "What Is the Nation Good For?" ed. by
@zeithistoriker
- drops early July!
Featuring
@atossaaraxia
,
@KateAronoff
,
@willcallison
,
@AdomGetachew
,
@alybatt
,
@coracurrier
,
@onesarahjones
,
@sarahkasbeer
,
@gabrielwinant
,
@daniel_dsj2110
,
@DanielZamoraV
and more!
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"A black, queer, transnational feminism with an emphasis on economic justice is shaping our political moment"
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Redlining maps document the history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
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Over a long career as a public intellectual, Charles Mills used his gut-punching wit and moral clarity in defense of racial justice.
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DSA Labor (
@DSA_Labor
) organizers
@snaccrondsa
,
@elliotrlewis
, and
@HondaWang
respond to
@SamAdlerBell
's piece "Can DSA Go the Distance?"
"We believe that DSA’s labor work across the country provides a glimpse of what is possible."
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The ratification of the 14th Amendment marked a turning point in U.S. history. 150 years later, not only does its promise remain unfulfilled, but the president aspires to revoke it by fiat
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Ahead of tomorrow's International
#WomensStrike
, a series of socialist feminist highlights from the Dissent archives
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"Socialist policy on armed conflicts should be based on analyzing the situation on the ground rather than on whether an imperial power supports one side or the other."
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Corbyn offered hope, and a more inclusive vision of society: socialism, painstakingly costed and budgeted.
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Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse.
@tressiemcphd
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"The story of Parks and Rec is the story of liberalism in the Obama years. And both begin with hope."
@Tim_Shenk
on the dead-end optimism of Parks and Rec:
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"Student members of the West Virginia United Students’ Union feel that the cuts are yet another example of how those in power use West Virginia as a sacrifice zone,"
@hey_emhilly
writes.
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"If we think culture explains voting behavior, we should be talking about a culture of disempowerment and resignation before we talk about a culture of conservatism,"
@j_bwilliams
writes.
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Movements win by turning “unrealistic” demands into ones that can’t be ignored
#MedicareforAll
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Announcing a new partnership!
@DissentMag
is proud to partner with
@KnowYrEnemyPod
, a new podcast about the American right, hosted by
@MatthewSitman
and
@SamAdlerBell
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We’re looking to bring on a current undergraduate to write a series of articles over the coming year on topics that fall under the broad heading of “college.”
Apply by July 6th.
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Our Spring 2023 issue, WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE CLIMATE LEFT?, is out now.
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On the latest
@KnowYrEnemyPod
, Matt Sitman and
@SamAdlerBell
discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
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“Governments—if they’re actually well organized—co-create and co-shape markets, not just fix them”
@MazzucatoM
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Can industrial policy be disentangled from rhetoric about a new Cold War? Join
@BuddyYakov
,
@DanielaGabor
,
@hofunghung
,
@triofrancos
, and
@zeithistoriker
for a virtual discussion on June 26.
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Market socialism: it’s a thing! We published a whole book on it!
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"She remained a propagandist, an Objectivist purist, and a drama queen presiding over her fictional Theaters of Cruelty, providing templates, plot lines, and characters for the everyday fantasies of the neoliberal era."
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"The manifesto was the key component in Labour’s historic performance."
@DawnHFoster
on the UK election result:
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Philly area friends: see Tabitha's stunning & never before publicly exhibited rugs! what a treat!
Guys!!! I opened my show at List Gallery at Swarthmore! If you’re in Philly and you like my work, this is probably your only chance to see several of my most famous rugs!
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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed…
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above…
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
—Langston Hughes, 1938
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Artwork by
@mollycrabapple
of the walkouts at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse on Staten Island two years ago.
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.
@robgreeneII
on what three seminal 1967 books by black intellectuals can teach us about fighting racism today
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West Virginia teachers have walked off the job for the first time in almost 30 years.
@sarahljaffe
reports:
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In our fall 2018 issue,
@KeeangaYamahtta
wrote about how real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
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“We are in a class war, whether we like it or not, and we will not win it with better billionaires.”
@sarahljaffe
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An interview with
@KateAronoff
about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
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"I want people to understand that the deficit and the national debt are not obstacles to progress and that our government can always afford to fund its priorities."
@MarkLevinson6
interviews
@StephanieKelton
:
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A shrewd movement strategist, Fannie Lou Hamer rose from abject poverty to reshape the American political order
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The Italian theorist continues to offer important insights for organizers in the socialist lineage.
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“Wealth that is often assumed to have been created by the famous entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley is an outcome of a deeply collective process.”
@KateAronoff
talks to
@MazzucatoM
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Our Spring 2023 issue, What’s Next for the Climate Left?, launches May 8 with a special section ed. by
@alybatt
. Featuring
@KateAronoff
,
@patrickmbigger
, Sara Nelson,
@hollyjeanbuck
,
@GeoffPMann
, Saheli Khastagir,
@jmijincha
,
@orangebegum
&
@triofrancos
.
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Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line is one of the best books ever written about American trade unionism,
@gabrielwinant
writes.
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"This is not a silent majority. It is outspoken and will do what it takes to be heard."
#PPLSummit
#OurRevolution
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Our Winter issue is live! Featuring two special sections: The Future of Work and The Fight Against Trump
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Happy May Day! Solidarity to everyone taking the streets today for workers' and immigrants' rights
#UnDiaSinInmigrantes
#LaHuelga
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There will always be resistance to recognizing the need to rethink our relationship to the world around us—to admit we got it wrong before we got it right.
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"The coronavirus came, and Congress started spinning out multi-trillion-dollar spending bills. We had to act! And that meant adding to the deficit to fight the pandemic."
@StephanieKelton
on her new book, The Deficit Myth:
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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing politicians to act in ways that just weeks ago seemed unthinkable. And activists like the Reclaimers are opening the cracks still wider.
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Newsrooms are 77 percent white. After two decades of consolidation, downsizing, and buyouts, they also tend to be middle-class and up.
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COVID-19 has produced some of the greatest social convulsions in living memory.
Introducing a special section of short essays on the pandemic:
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"The purpose of abolition isn’t only to end the moral catastrophe of incarceration, but also to create a society in which freedom and abundance are universal relations." —
@unit01barbie
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The attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand this week that left forty-nine people dead and scores more injured was not a lone wolf attack or the work of a few isolated radicals,
@kathleen_belew
writes.
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After four weeks on strike, British university lecturers appear poised for an unexpected, historic victory
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Denaturalization has a long and ugly history in the US. Emma Goldman was just one of the many American radicals whose citizenship was stripped for her political activities
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"Wonder Woman, which launched in 1941, was inspired by suffragist feminists & birth control activists of the 1910s"
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Dissent is proud to be a founding member of the wire service of the Progressive International (
@ProgIntl
), which launches today. Read
@davidrkadler
on the project here:
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"State and local governments—like households and private businesses—can’t issue the currency. The federal government is in an elevated position; it’s the issuer of the currency. It can do what the rest of us can’t do."
@StephanieKelton
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Our Spring 2022 issue, CONFLICT IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CHINA, is now online.
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In the latest episode of
@KnowYrEnemyPod
,
@HZeavin
and
@re_colston
help
@MatthewSitman
and
@SamAdlerBell
navigate Philip Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis.
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Social movements win by turning "unrealistic" demands into ones that can't be ignored
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In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
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A new study by Thomas Piketty's team shows that American inequality continues to rise, with no sign of abating
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Trump has faithfully carried out a conservative remaking of the federal courts.
Progressives need a strategy not just to win elections, but to overcome judicial challenges to popular policy.
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The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.
By
@ASPertierra
:
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From Charles Mills in 2015: "Our plan should be to combine the struggle for racial justice with (not subsume it under) the fight for social democracy and class equality, making clear how their fates are bound up with one another."
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On the latest episode of
@KnowYrEnemyPod
,
@GBBranstetter
joins
@MatthewSitman
and
@SamAdlerBell
to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
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Our Fall 2023 issue, UP FROM NEOLIBERALISM, launches September 5.
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The challenges to organizing in the South are perhaps greater than in any other region. How have Starbucks workers with
@SBWorkersUnited
managed to claim victories in a more hostile legal and political climate?
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Our Fall 2020 issue, TECHNOLOGY AND THE CRISIS OF WORK, is now online.
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Capitalism and racism overlap sometimes, as they do today in the United States. But the overlap is circumstantial, not necessary.
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“The child welfare system is a powerful state policing apparatus that functions to regulate poor and working-class families—especially those that are Black, Latinx, & Indigenous—by wielding the threat of taking their children from them.” —
@DorothyERoberts
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"The United States needs a healthcare system that has universalism—and equity—built into its very foundation." It's single-payer or bust, writes
@awgaffney
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"The right to grieve is no less a human right than the right to live. And if the left cannot recognize this—if the left fails at this very basic task—then it has learned nothing from the catastrophes of the last century,"
@joshualeifer
writes.
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Racism shapes how economics is taught and practiced. When we fail to scrutinize neoclassical assumptions, they perpetuate racist outcomes.
@joelle_gamble
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