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WEBThe Labor Intellectuals. Nelson Lichtenstein Spring 2024. The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture. An independent quarterly magazine, publishing some of America’s most exciting long-form political and cultural criticism since 1954.
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WEBThe Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions. Tadhg Larabee and Eva Rosenfeld Spring 2024. Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal ...
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WEBA New Suburban Politics. A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life. Lily Geismer Fall 2024. An aerial view of tract housing in Levittown, New York, c. 1955 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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WEBSep 6, 2024 · Tadhg Larabee and Eva Rosenfeld Spring 2024. Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
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WEBDec 24, 2021 · Dissent’s most-read articles in 2021:. Simon Brown, The Rise of the Elite Anti-Intellectuals, August 20, 2021 Sam Adler-Bell, All Work and No Play, Summer 2021 Michael C. Behrent, The True Foucault, September 30, 2021 Vanessa Williamson, The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy, Winter 2021 Tim Barker, The End of Development, Spring 2021 Katha Pollitt, The Left Needs Free Speech, Summer 2021
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WEBJosh Bivens Fall 2024. Workers repave a section of 24th Avenue in San Francisco in 2021. (Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images) The economic policy achievements of the Biden administration are not philosophically coherent enough to merit their own intellectual label. Instead, the successes are mostly the result of ad hoc opportunism.
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WEBAug 16, 2024 · The GOP Attack on Free Lunch. Colin Gordon June 25, 2024. In an era of retrenchment in social policy, food assistance is becoming more generous and inclusive. But Republican politicians are attempting to gut …
What’s the Matter With the Democrats? - Dissent Magazine
WEBby Robert Kagan. Knopf, 2024, 256 pp. It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not decisively prefer them to the Republicans. Despite Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, open bigotry ...
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WEBA Reparative Politics for the Climate Crisis: A Roundtable. Kate Aronoff, Richard Kozul-Wright, Asad Rehman, Thea Riofrancos and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
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WEBSep 3, 2024 · Know Your Enemy: Against Despair, with Christian Wiman. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell April 29, 2024. Matt and Sam talk to the poet Christian Wiman about his recent book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair.