What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be needed. Manuel Pastor ▪ June 13, 2025 ...

China's younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and ...

Planetary ecosystems are presently in a dire state. For decades, capitalism has proposed to hold the solutions: in new forms of property rights, new kinds of markets, new representations of concrete ...

From mental healthcare to internet access, the unequal experience of learning during the pandemic reminds us of the important role institutions like universities and governments can—and must—play in ...

For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism.

Black inhabitants of the South did not respond uniformly to the rules and folkways of Jim Crow, nor do they see its demise in quite the same way. Two recent books use the authority of testimony to ...

The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice rather than passive assurance that it would prevail.

Editors June 12, 2025 Join Dissent at Book Culture on Thursday, July 10 at 7 p.m. for a discussion about Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, a new ...

Troubles of a Jewish Conscience Henry Pachter July-August 1967 June 12, 1967 I have talked to a number of citizens of Jewish descent —some of whom have relatives in Israel or have lived there—who, ...

Ahead of this month's parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.