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.
Trump’s wall is a “monument to the final closing of the frontier.” He has abandoned the political language of boundless optimism for a darker tone.
Read highlights on Tiffany Lethabo King from the Dissent archives.
We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
Read highlights on Skid Row from the Dissent archives.
The central experience of work in the twenty-first century is one of instability. And yet that experience is largely unrecorded in contemporary fiction.
Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
The special section of Dissent’s Fall issue, The Right to a Home, is edited by historian Thomas Sugrue, author of Origins of the Urban Crisis, and by Dissent senior editor Colin Kinniburgh.
Join Dissent magazine and the New School for two days of discussion with scholars, activists, and journalists from across the Americas about the challenges and opportunities for left politics in the r ...
As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.
As “eds and meds” reshape working-class New Haven, labor and community groups are joining forces to transform the service economy and build a more democratic city.
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