Dissent Magazine

Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead of Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections.

Matt and Sam talk to reporter David Weigel of Semafor about the 2026 midterm elections.

Join artists Tabitha Arnold, Molly Crabapple, and Matt Rota for an exhibit exploring the intersection between their creative and commercial work.

The moral of Lance Oppenheim’s exploration of To Catch A Predator may be an obvious one.

Years of underinvestment in energy, infrastructure, and public services now weigh on Andy Burnham’s premiership.

Matt and Sam talk to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley.

Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline.

Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force.

The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it.

The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.

In a renewed period of coups across the African continent, Ruth First’s analysis in The Barrel of a Gun remains as timely as ever.

Matt and Sam are joined by journalist Jacob Silverman to discuss the eye-watering corruption of the Trump regime.

Democrats have been telling their party for a while that its leadership has not met their expectations.

The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions.

In Power Play, video games aren’t just entertainment but a new front in information warfare, exposing liberal democracies to disinformation, mass surveillance, and extremism.

If Fordism promised a car in every garage, Elon Musk’s worldview promises wealth for those able to command technology—but no commitment to share the reward.

App-controlled labor is less a technological novelty than yet another chapter in a much longer history of employer legal circumvention.

The protagonist of the cult time-loop series On the Calculation of Volume lives in the middle of a slow-motion catastrophe, slipping day-by-day into an altered and dubious future.

Collective bargaining transforms tenants from a category produced by the housing market into a class capable of fighting against it.

The U.S. welfare state was built in moments when technical innovation collided with political reality.

The Chinese electric vehicle boom offers an opportunity to push manufacturers to produce cheaper EVs, while bolstering unionization and decarbonization in the United States.

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present.

With authoritarianism on the rise in Silicon Valley, the stories of digital border-crossing by Chinese netizens resonate far beyond the Great Firewall.

Today’s yuppie nostalgia comes from the fact that an ever-small proportion of the young, urban, and professional can live lives of carefree affluence, no matter how much they strive.

We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments.

Autofiction collapses the distance between creator and product.

Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America.

An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, about how U.S. police unions built themselves into a formidable political force, and whether the movement is more fragile than it appears.

Few public health interventions have been as effective at protecting people from extreme heat as air conditioning.

In many ways, Christopher Nolan’s film is not a faithful adaptation.

The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Nathaniel about the role archaeology plays in Israel’s nationalist mythology and in the annexation of Palestinian territory.

Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy.

Public schools are in need of major funding reforms, but any egalitarian vision for the American education system will need to overcome a right-wing crusade to dismantle it altogether.

Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It.

In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected.

Operation Metro Surge was the culmination of a decades-long campaign in which conspiratorial crusaders have painted Somalis as a drain on social programs, criminals, and extremists.

An interview with Julie C.

While the “worst of the worst” was already part of the lexicon of immigration enforcement before Donald Trump, his administration has routinely wielded it as a tool for advancing a radical, white-nationalist agenda.

Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

Hacks was a sharp satire of show business, but at its core it was about the creative process as a labor of love.

By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat.

An interview with David Bateman and Julie C.

After a twelve-year struggle against military conscription in Thailand, Buddhist conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal faces potential incarceration in July.