The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left ...

How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. This is not because her argument—that Democrats need to show ...

This is a process to which not just the strongman contributes but also his enablers or allies, and even at times the ...

Working on Dissent has been both a great pleasure and a ceaseless responsibility. It is time to let others have all the fun ...

Read responses to this article by Dustin Guastella and Mark Levinson here. The time has come to abandon a political proposal that the left has advanced in Europe and the United States for almost 200 ...

Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity. Brian Morton ▪ Fall 2020 Novelist Ralph Ellison poses for a portrait in Harlem in 1966. (David ...

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there. J.W. Mason ▪ July 4, 2025 Zohran Mamdani holds a rally on ...

Jon Henry’s photography offers the hope that remembrance can spark political change.

As Michael Kazin retires as co-editor, his Dissent colleagues pay tribute.

The scientific consensus is beyond debate: because of burning an ever-increasing amount of fossil fuels, our world is undergoing deep and rapid climate change. Unfortunately, the responses of the ...

Timothy Shenk ▪ Spring 2019 “In the first season, the Parks and Rec writers had played the idea of a Leslie Knope presidency for laughs; six years later, it had turned into a prophecy.” (NBC) ...